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Empowerment
About: Empowerment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 42112 publications have been published within this topic receiving 752953 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the empowerment effects of rural women's access to micro-credit were examined based on longitudinal qualitative research with rural women who are involved in an NGO-run micro-lending program in Ghana, and the implications of these findings for policy and practice are discussed.
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed the evidence about the link between access to micro-finance and women empowerment and found that women empowerment was linked with micro-financing access to the micro-currency.
Abstract: Reviews the evidence about the link between access to microfinance and women’s empowerment.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between psychological empowerment, job insecurity and employee engagement and found that affective job insecurity had a main effect on three dimensions of psychological empowerment (i.e., meaningfulness, competence, self-determination and impact) and on employee engagement.
Abstract: Orientation: The psychological empowerment of employees might affect their engagement. However, psychological empowerment and employee engagement might also be influenced by job insecurity. Research purposes: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between psychological empowerment, job insecurity and employee engagement. Motivation for the study: Employee engagement results in positive individual and organisational outcomes and research information about the antecedents will provide valuable information for the purposes of diagnosis and intervention. Research design, approach and method: A correlational design was used. Survey design was conducted among 442 employees in a government and a manufacturing organisation. The measuring instruments included the Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire, the Job Insecurity Inventory, and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Main findings: Statistically significant relationships were found between psychological empowerment, job insecurity and employee engagement. A multivariate analysis of variance showed that affective job insecurity had a main effect on three dimensions of psychological empowerment (viz. competence, meaning and impact) and on employee engagement. Affective job insecurity moderated the effect of psychological empowerment on employee engagement. Practical implications: The implication of the results is that interventions that focus on the psychological empowerment of employees (viz. meaningfulness, competence, self-determination and impact) will contribute to the engagement (vigour, dedication and absorption) of employees. If job insecurity is high, it is crucial to attend to the psychological empowerment of employees. Contribution: This study contributes to knowledge about the conditions that precede employee engagement, and shows that the dimensions of psychological empowerment (namely experienced meaningfulness, competence, impact and self-determination) play an important role in this regard.
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TL;DR: A four-level model is proposed that serves to explain what is termed E-empowerment and the effects that can be observed at each of the four levels, ranging from the personal to the global levels and the consequences of that empowerment are discussed.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider both positive and negative ways in which women are engaging with ecotourism enterprises in Third World contexts. But they do not consider the impact of gender roles, gender relations and access to resources.
Abstract: In many parts of the Third World the number of local communities seeking involvement in ecotourism ventures has soared in the past decade. A cogent concern, from a development perspective, is that many such ventures have progressed with scant regard for the changes they may provoke in gender roles, gender relations and access to resources. As with other development initiatives which profess to be 'gender neutral', ecotourism runs the risk of disadvantaging and marginalising local women. This paper considers both positive and negative ways in which women are engaging with ecotourism enterprises in Third World contexts. Such examples could help to guide agencies which wish to find ways of facilitating local level empowerment of both men and women through ecotourism in the future.
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