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Empowerment as Interactions that Generate Self-Confidence — An Emotion-Sociological Analysis of Organizational Empowerment

In: Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions

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  • Poul Poder

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Empowerment, understood as the delegation of authority, the flattening of organizational hierarchy and the effort to encourage employees to work independently and creatively, is a strong and widespread ideal. Many employees in contemporary work organizations are involved in empowerment programmes (Dahl 1999: 51; Jacobsen/Thorsvik 2007: 188). However, such programmes are often unsuccessful (Wilson 2004; Edwards/Wajcman 2005), and the processes that lead to effective empowerment have not yet been sufficiently understood (Conger/Kanungo 1988; Eylon 1998: 17). This chapter aims to address this gap in understanding by theorizing how confidence and other positive emotions contribute to personal agency, which is an essential aspect of the empowerment process.

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  • Poul Poder, 2010. "Empowerment as Interactions that Generate Self-Confidence — An Emotion-Sociological Analysis of Organizational Empowerment," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Barbara Sieben & Åsa Wettergren (ed.), Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions, chapter 5, pages 106-125, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-28989-5_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230289895_6
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