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Beyond Rhetoric: A Typology of Empowerment Strategies Found Within One Organisation

In: Ethics and Empowerment

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  • Julia M. Christensen Hughes

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Within the North American business community, the word empowerment can be found in corporate vision and value statements, product advertisements and management text books. For example, Digital Equipment’s product NAS (Network Application Support) promises to ‘empower your people to work together more effectively’ (advertisement, Business Week, 20 April 1992). In Organizational Behaviour, Hellriegel, Slocum and Woodman (1992) assert that empowerment is an important characteristic of ‘a high performance-high commitment work culture’ (p. 516). Empowerment has also become one of the most popular topics for management best-sellers, conferences and seminars, management consulting services and organisational success stories. For example, the Institute for International Research (IIR) advertised a two-day seminar with the promise: ‘achieve full productivity and world class total quality improvement through employee empowerment’ (IIR advertisement, 1992). The National Businesswomen’s Leadership Association referred to their self-empowerment seminar as, ‘the key to personal success and professional productivity —bring balance, control and confidence to your life’ (NBLA advertisement,1992).

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  • Julia M. Christensen Hughes, 1999. "Beyond Rhetoric: A Typology of Empowerment Strategies Found Within One Organisation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: John J. Quinn & Peter W. F. Davies (ed.), Ethics and Empowerment, chapter 7, pages 197-234, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37272-6_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230372726_8
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