Empowerment - Science topic

Hi, Prof. Laverack:

Thank you for recommending the e-book.

ok Mr. Munoz, I hope I can help you even a little:

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Prof Rajeev I want to join a project, because I don't have any project

Hello Chisom Anizoba , you can click on the following link https://acgreece.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1UgsGvH2qfFUoOW in order to participate in the survey. All best.

The structural models are more in line with those used by PL-SEM.

I don't know if what I am suggesting fits with your topic.

Look for capacity development in institutions. I believe that is a way of empowerment.

Staff development at institutions of higher learning.

https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/26726/03chapter3.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

Hello Erastus Kiswili Nyile

I agree with Peterson K. Ozili that you cannot make money from this method. I see it more as only an opportunity to become better known in my field by others also in this field. I think of it as an academic (and not-for-profit) benefit rather than a commercial opportunity.

It is people, not processes or technology, who embrace or not a situation and carry out or neglect corresponding actions. People will help build what they are empowered to create.

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Very interesting& professional bitácora, Prof. Luis Ordoñez, thank you for sharing the link:

Best Regards.

See this article, it might be helpful

Absolutely

Islam empowers women, that to me is very clear

It is many other scholars who think Islam disempowers

Sharing a model from 'Package design workbook: The art and science of successful packaging' (p. 36) by DuPuis, S., & Silva, J. (2008). Beverly, Mass: Rockport. This figure will give you an idea of how design works under different influences, this can be further expanded to link it with society and culture.

Hello Wolfgang, I think "Social Inclusion" is the key. Maybe my Publication helps: "Empowerment im inklusiven ästhetisch-künstlerischen Werkstattunterricht: Aktive Gestaltung statt passiver Teilnahme"

Thank you, I will definitely check out your suggestion.

Aman, this is an important topic for discussion and debate. In addition to the factors you have highlighted, there is increasing recognition and consideration in the research and emerging literature of the importance of leadership and its various styles on not only organisational climate but also on the capability of an organisation and its members to learn, innovate, create, be agile, relate to power politics and associated dynamic mutations. You may find the following studies helpful:

Sethibe, T. G. (2018). Towards a comprehensive model on the relationship between leadership styles, organisational climate, innovation and organisational performance. International Journal of Innovation Management, 22(02), 1850021.

Taştan, S. B., & Davoudi, S. M. M. (2017). The relationship between organisational climate and organisational innovativeness: testing the moderating effect of individual values of power and achievement. International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 12(4), 465-483.

Škerlavaj, M., Su, C., & Huang, M. (2013). The moderating effects of national culture on the development of organisational learning culture: A multilevel study across seven countries. Journal for East European Management Studies, 97-134.

Interesting stuff...

International Red Cross and Caritas are the most important internationally and locally.

Dear Wafaa Syuhada Noridan I believe that if you read the papers on the subject and then you create your own is much better. Here is papers from my side:

No but would like to follow

Equity does not force anyone to participate everywhere. If the job is suitable then think about barriers. Not only individual factors, family, society and national policy are involved according to ecological concept. It will take time to change the men's world.

If it's based on the seven UN Women Empowerment Principles then you should use secondary data or go through a qualitative research. You can collect the better information then.

Thanks, Sir.

Good Contribution My Dear Chris Hicks

I personally think if one is financially independent, can make decisions and influence policy. Thank you

Dear Prof. Edward J Tehovnik

I guess that Brazil should remain as far as possible from the Sao Paolo forum. Otherwise, think about what is happening in my country Venezuela.

I think family education about hypertension can empower the family members to facilitate hypertension control

You can try Fall Efficacy Scale- International (FES-I)

Educational -Innovations in technique and correct Laws

Dear Ximu Xu and Stephen Dobson, I feel your artcle will demonstrate that student learning is affected by multiple factors, having different emphasis depending on the location of the learning.

Empowerment need to continues trying

Dual professional higher education can help to avoid academic waste; basic theoretical standard knowledge can be automated for learning and practical participation in work practices and projects is paramount, from the first minute.

Academic freedom of thought is a matter of advancing political culture and can be achieved by independent administration, i.e. self-governance and entrepreneurial spirit.

Thank Amal for your answer. I will try wiziq.

I will recommend you to include translators who are native speakers of target language from both medical and non-medical fields. Ideally, during expert review meeting, all translators should be present to reach consensus of any uncertainties of translations. Next, please pre-test the terms with the potential users or readers. I hope this helps.

Alexander is an important figure. One of his disadvantages in terms of practical take up is that his approach particularly that of patterns tends to be a little prescriptive and designers in general and architects in particular are put off by what they can easily see as a restriction on creativity rather than assisting it.

you will also find in here all the work I did on therapeutic environments. Here we analysed a couple of thousand pieces of resarch and produced a tool for the nhs to use with its clients and designers that did not advance a particular design or form but rather allowed the team to evaluar the extent to which a design respected what the research told us. We found this helpful to use when designers and clients and users worked together in workshops.

it needs statistics.

I don't think this should be categorized as a true type of leadership.It is just an arrangement to run the business.

This was only a letter addressed to ResearchGate answering to its query, but by no means to be open to the public. So please, drop it.

Organizational paranoia (OP) is socially constructed through interactions among employees, leadership, and more importantly their stakeholders (people being served, funding sources, people who can affect or will be affected). Lack of of organizational leadership, absence of a formal vision, mission and strategic plan, decline in value of what organization is producing, and a whole host of other environmental factors are the primary drivers. Due to spineless personalities with individual paranoia the OP becomes worst through distrust and suspicion.

Yes, i am from Bangladesh, i did survey for my gender studies course about women empowerment, community clinic, child abuse

Since some of your employees are in groups with the same manager, there is the possibility that some managers have overall better relationships than others, and this can create problems in the analysis. You can check to first see if there are group differences on your variables. ICC(1) can show how much of the variance is between-groups, and one-way ANOVA with group as the IV can tell you if you have significant group differences. If you do, one approach to control for those differences is using pooled within-group correlations. If there isn't much group difference, then you can ignore the group structure. Your sample size is pretty small to do multi-level modeling. You won't have much power.

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Here are some studies that surface from a brief search on the data base Google scholar.

Berry, A., Borgi, M., Francia, N., Alleva, E., & Cirulli, F. (2013). Use of assistance and therapy dogs for children with autism spectrum disorders: A critical review of the current evidence. The journal of alternative and complementary medicine, 19(2), 73-80.

Burgoyne, L., Dowling, L., Fitzgerald, A., Connolly, M., Browne, J. P., & Perry, I. J. (2014). Parents’ perspectives on the value of assistance dogs for children with autism spectrum disorder: a cross-sectional study. BMJ open, 4(6), e004786.

Carlisle, Gretchen K. "The social skills and attachment to dogs of children with autism spectrum disorder." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 45, no. 5 (2015): 1137-1145.

Fung, S. C., & Leung, A. S. M. (2014). Pilot study investigating the role of therapy dogs in facilitating social interaction among children with autism. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 44(4), 253-262.

Prothmann, A., Ettrich, C., & Prothmann, S. (2009). Preference for, and responsiveness to, people, dogs and objects in children with autism. Anthrozoös, 22(2), 161-171.

Sams, M. J., Fortney, E. V., & Willenbring, S. (2006). Occupational therapy incorporating animals for children with autism: A pilot investigation. The American journal of occupational therapy, 60(3), 268-274.

Silva, K., Correia, R., Lima, M., Magalhães, A., & de Sousa, L. (2011). Can dogs prime autistic children for therapy? Evidence from a single case study. The journal of alternative and complementary medicine, 17(7), 655-659.

Smyth, C., & Slevin, E. (2010). Experiences of family life with an autism assistance dog. Learning disability practice, 13(4).

Solomon, O. (2010). What a dog can do: Children with autism and therapy dogs in social interaction. Ethos, 38(1), 143-166.

Solomon, O. (2012). Doing, being and becoming: The sociality of children with autism in activities with therapy dogs and other people. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 30(1), 109-126.

Viau, R., Arsenault-Lapierre, G., Fecteau, S., Champagne, N., Walker, C. D., & Lupien, S. (2010). Effect of service dogs on salivary cortisol secretion in autistic children. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35(8), 1187-1193.

Wright, H., Hall, S., Hames, A., Hardiman, J., Mills, R., PAWS Project Team, & Mills, D. (2015). Pet dogs improve family functioning and reduce anxiety in children with autism spectrum disorder. Anthrozoös, 28(4), 611-624.

Wright, H. F., Hall, S., Hames, A., Hardiman, J., Mills, R., Mills, D. S., & PAWS Team. (2015). Acquiring a pet dog significantly reduces stress of primary carers for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A prospective case control study. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 45(8), 2531-2540.

Dear Marek Dance

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according to Starkey (2003), empowerment is discussed with increasing regularity, yet remains a contested concept which is often not clearly defined. An explanation for this could be diverse origins. As a concept, empowerment has its roots in a range of traditions, including among others, the civil rights, anti-racist and women’s movements and consumerism. Thus, empowerment holds varying meanings in a range of contexts with different underpinning assumptions and ideologies. In order to establish a theoretical framework, this paper will outline two competing discourses identified by Croft and Beresford (1995): the consumerist model of empowerment and the liberational model of empowerment.

Information underpins both buyer and supplier power in the marketplace. Keh and Park (1988) suggest that information allows access to more products and allows individuals to learn about manufacturers and distributors, competitive offerings and prices. Pitt et al (2002) note that information incompleteness and information asymmetries do not provide conditions where individuals feel they have all the information to act, in a sense rendering them powerless The power of information is manifest in the relationship between consumers and professionals (such as health care professionals or financial services professionals).

Kjartan Skogly Kversøy Many thanks . Keep enlightening us.

I do not think I can empower enyone, but I can facilitate someone to empower themselves. This is an important starting point. To have power is to be able to let your will happen. A critical part of becomming empowered is to actually have the «space» to both let your will happen and simultaniously grasp your responsibility. That again means that to facilitate another persons empowerment of themselves is to give them the space to act through their own will and to trust their selfregulating sense of resposibility. This is tricky business to understand and set into motion if you have a tradition in the institution wanting to develope this type of change. It actually requires a great deal of training to make it work. I have worked with organisations with this goal and it is much more difficult than i appears. If you succeed, the reward is often big. Creativity, as you say, can be one such reward. Khalid aswad Layikh Daniel Cebo

Why the gathering? You must have a strong motivation. Since case study is not open to generalisation, the subtlety of your motivation would enrich this platform.

Hi Lidia,

as concerns your question on research on empowerment of older people I read recently an interesting article which might be also of interest to you:

Kind regards, Volker

Thanks @Kristian

Page, N., & Czuba, C. E. (1999). Empowerment: What is it. Journal of extension, 37(5), 1-5.

Dear Yousif Riyadh Mahmood,

In many of these 100 areas of business, companies and startups are being developed. Many of these rapidly developing ventures base their business development on new technologies, product, technological, process innovations, management, etc. Many startups develop their business projects trying to diagnose and use new market niches that also appear in connection with the development of new technologies, in including new information and Internet technologies, etc. New fast-growing startups, based on their development in innovative technological, product and service solutions, etc., diagnose technological gaps or market niches in fast-growing, eg information services, Internet, advanced information processing, etc. providing these new information services may be a classic, already known sales model, logistics, management, etc. On the other hand, there are also startups that base their business success on a different approach, i.e. they are already familiar with classic information, internet or other services but according to a new, innovative formula of sales, logistics, distribution, payment methods, new forms of remote order processing, etc. The risk of opening new startups is high, the highest usually because statistically only 1 in 10 develops in a period of more than a few years and achieves a large, unique business success. However, the reward for this high investment risk is also high in the right diagnosis of the technological gap or niche market and efficient business management. This reward is high profitability, generating large financial surpluses and development opportunities through continuous reinvestments, thanks to which the company becomes much larger each year and takes up larger and larger shares in specific markets. Then, a novice innovative startup must quickly develop to maintain a priority position in a niche market, which he himself diagnosed and was the first to penetrate the business. It needs to develop quickly to avoid taking over from a large technology company, bank or investment fund, which are looking for such developmental, innovative startups to take over majority shareholdings. After a few years of this type of capital acquisition, initially a small startup is absorbed by a large technology company, transformed into its part in the capital structure, leaving, modifying or liquidating the original startup brand. If the acquirer of the majority shareholding is a bank or an investment fund, then for the most of a few years a small local startup is developed into a globally recognized brand of an internationally important company and when it reaches a certain level of significant share in specific global markets it is sold to other investors . This sale process is often carried out by another issue of shares, but already on the public market and new investors, which may also be citizens with investment accounts in brokerage offices, are given the opportunity to deposit financial surpluses, ie their savings in shares of a developing technology company. In such a situation, the shares of the company are usually introduced to the stock exchange in order to enable the citizen to sell them at any time, provided that there is high liquidity on the exchange market in trading these shares. However, whether shareholders after a few years of ownership of these shares will get rich depends largely on the quality of management of this company by new owners, new major shareholders.

I invite you to the discussion.

Health Evidence Network report #59 from Euro WHO might help

Contact the author as a consulting expert. He would adapt the measures on your request.

You are welcome Vikas. Yes you should do the VIF test for all the 37 variables. Take one X_i as the independent variable, and all X_{-i} as your dependent. I am unclear where 10 vs 5 came from. Please elaborate.

As for the multicollinearity test, my suggestion is to put all your data in a matrix X and if it is not square, perform Gaussian Elimination.

Best wishes!

Pablo Nocera , an argentinian researcher , is an expert in the trajectories of the durkhemian concepts. And its change along editions and publications.

Cheers.

Hi Shyamal,

I think it depends on how you approach women empowerment.

Alsop et al. (2006)

develops a framework for assessment empowerment. It combines structural opportunities and agency. The latter refers to the actor's capacity to "make purposeful choices", including different types of assets:

psychological, informational, organizational, material, social, financial, and human assets. It means that to achieve empowerment, women must got a good combination of different types of assets in the support and availability of structural opportunities.

Of course, each factor such as what you propose - joint land titling or women only land title which falls into the category of financial asset - can be important. But the importance must be dependant on how this, joint land titling or female's land titling, contributes to the combination. For instance, joint land titling may help women gain a seemingly equal relationship with their husbands, allowing women to have more confidence (psychological asset), while women's land titling may result in more material possession, making women more powerful compared to their husband. Nevertheless, this is only argument and needs data. Each context, society and situation can provide different evidence for this question.

Cheers.

Start here. The GEM comprises several components of women’s empowerment including women’s representation in parliament, official and management positions, the number of female technical professionals. The Gender-related Development Index captures the same set of indicators as the Human Development Index; life expectancy, educational attainment, and income, but adjusts the results for gender inequality.

Hi Rasim, I suggest you start with the Bass Handbook of Leadership. Here's a link to its Google Books content:

In my view, we can associate many phenomena to leadership but it is non-sense to discuss about a substitute for leadership. Substitutes in strategic management are those products and services which satisfies the same needs. The specific needs satisfied by leadership are vision, motivating people, change dynamics and a holistic understanding of the future. Any manager able to satisfies these specific needs may become a good leader but not a substitute for a good leader. Thus, in my view there could be no logical relationship between leadership and substitutes for leadership. However, we may consider a logical relationship between the leadership and organizational ideology since leadership is always supported by a certain organizational philosophy in terms of vision and values.

Do you have separate purposes for your two types of interviews? If so, then it might make sense to take advantage of your earlier recruitment and include some of the same participants in both sets. But if you are talking about essentially the same topics in two different formats, then it doesn't make sense to let some people have their opinions included twice.

Healthy work environment with leadership support help to improve the outcomes

Hi, I am general practitioner in France where primary care is a paradox. Public health is from eighteen century but most of population can have acces to the newest technologies. As health profesionals work independently, there are few well structured health networks.

Sincerely yours

Hello Evelyn, thank you for the question. It seems that many preconditions for this are not met. Just to name a few factors I have found: communication between residents is difficult/impossible with language barriers (often, residents speak 10 or 12 different languages with no common one shared); the group of residents is not stable (people move frequently without notice or choice); the resources themselves to be shared are not stable (for example, donations come inconsistently or suddenly get taken away; people's money stipends change frequently); socially people do not identify other shelter residents as friends or community members (they prioritize wanting to care for their own families, stay out of trouble and avoid uncertain associations with others they do not trust); people's goals are usually not to make shelter life better, but rather, expend their energy to find a way to leave.

I will discuss these types of results of course. But, I feel I may need to use other frameworks or expand the discussion beyond the IAD since there are not clear action situations where rules are clearly being manipulated systematically.

Dear Arhan, you may wish to refer to our paper by Lan, Hong. et al: "The role and characteristics of social entrepreneurs in contemporary rural cooperative development in China: case studies of rural social entrepreneurship' in Asia Pacific Business Review (2014). One of the interviews was a highly entrepreneurial and capable woman. Also our Springer book by Ying Zhu et al (2015): 'Transforming rural communities in China and beyond: Community entrepreneurship and enterprises, infrastructure development and investment modes. Also, although it dates from 2006, Fatima Chowdhury's article 'Sun power, woman power' , Boloji, 14 October has always inspired me. http://www.boloji.com/articles/5412/sun-power-woman-power

Hope you and MBA student find helpful.

Maker empowerment is a heightened sensitivity to the made dimension of objects, ideas, and systems, along with a nudge toward tinkering with them and an increased capacity to do so. I feel that this is an incorrect interpretation of the term 'empowerment' because it does not state how people gain more control in their lives through the process of tinkering?

Wonderful feedback, thank you Sara Vannini. Agree with the tips you pointed to make the question clear and specific.

Dear Sumit and Kanwal,

I agree with Kanwal, it would be better to categorize the empowerment. Maybe you can also use qualitative method. Good example:

I suggest you read this article

Iudici, A., Maiocchi, A. (2014). Community Justice and juvenile offender: the management of an individual case with criminal slope with community involvement. MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Vol. 5 (20), pag. 2015-2027.

There is no doubt that education of women plays a significant role, but cultural issues and political strategies in a country or a region feed into this cycle. There is also a need for women leadership that can push through professional societies and organization to make such changes. For example, the leadership made by female nurses or midwives in Western countries facilitated such changes and enabled changes at different levels.

A2 milk brings higher prices; do consumers purhase / prefer A2 milk? That data should be availablae. Yes, Prof Dubey?

my advise is to use articles and research papers more in your research rather than theoretical textbooks alone 

you can use the model adopted by this article for measuring empowerment.

Best

Ishaq 

Witemeyer et al., (2013) state that consulting firms such as Hay Group, Valtera Corporation, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Silk Road and Gallup Organization developed instruments to measure employee engagement.   Witemeyer et al.,(2013) state that the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is a popular scholarly instruments to measure employee engagement.

If you are developing a new instrument to measure the construct of employee engagement please refer the article titled “Towards a Conceptualization and an Operationalization of the Construct of Employee Engagement” to get an idea. 

Reference

Witemeyer, H., Ellen, P. and Straub, D., 2013, September. Validating a Practice-Informed Definition of Employee Engagement. In Third Annual International Conference on Engaged Management Scholarship, Atlanta, Georgia.

Iddagoda, A., Opatha, H. H. D. N. P., & Gunawardana, K. D. (2016). Towards a Conceptualization and an Operationalization of the Construct of Employee Engagement. International Business Research, 9(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v9n2p85.