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Beyond the Individual: Toward a Nomological Network of Organizational Empowerment
Author(s) -
Peterson N. Andrew,
Zimmerman Marc A.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1023/b:ajcp.0000040151.77047.58
Subject(s) - nomological network , empowerment , psychology , construct (python library) , knowledge management , health psychology , sociology , social psychology , business , computer science , public health , political science , marketing , medicine , nursing , law , programming language , service (business)
Abstract Empowerment research has generally been limited to the individual level of analysis. Efforts to study empowerment beyond the individual require conceptual frameworks suggesting attributes that define the construct and guide its measurement. This paper presents an initial attempt to describe the nomological network of empowerment at the organizational level of analysis—organizational empowerment (OE). Intraorganizational, interorganizational, and extraorganizational components of OE are described. Implications for empowerment theory and practice are discussed.