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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 authors present an overview of women's empowerment and empowerment and discuss future directions for population policing in the United States, including women empowerment, empowerment, and health care.
Abstract: PART I. INTRODUCTION PART II. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT PART III. WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PART IV. WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC PROCESSES PART V. FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR POPULATION POLICY
279 citations
12 Dec 2005
TL;DR: Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games, empowerment is proposed, a rather universal function, defined as the information-theoretic capacity of an agent's actuation channel that applies to any sensorimotor apparatus.
Abstract: The classical approach to using utility functions suffers from the drawback of having to design and tweak the functions on a case by case basis Inspired by examples from the animal kingdom, social sciences and games we propose empowerment, a rather universal function, defined as the information-theoretic capacity of an agent's actuation channel The concept applies to any sensorimotor apparatus Empowerment as a measure reflects the properties of the apparatus as long as they are observable due to the coupling of sensors and actuators via the environment Using two simple experiments we also demonstrate how empowerment influences sensor-actuator evolution
279 citations
TL;DR: It is found that community empowerment-based approaches to addressing HIV among sex workers were significantly associated with reductions in HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and with increases in consistent condom use with all clients.
278 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to define empowerment, lay out a process by which it can be assessed, and offer an implementation strategy for managers, in order to understand what exactly employee empowerment is, how it might be implemented, and exactly what can be gained through its implementation.
Abstract: Executive Overview Without question empowerment is THE topic of the day. Articles, books, consultants, and seminars all offer the practicing manager ideas, techniques, methods and reasons to immediately put this new powerful employee motivation/productivity tool to work. Yet, there is still a fair amount of ignorance as to what exactly employee empowerment is, how it might be implemented, and exactly what can be gained through its implementation. In this article we attempt to define empowerment, lay out a process by which it can be assessed, and offer an implementation strategy for managers.
278 citations