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* {{quotation | Empowerment is not merely a new buzzword introduced to capture the imagination of current trends in management science. It comprises an innovative approach to working with people and a shift from top-down management styles which have dominated control mechanism and managerial concepts in both theory and practice since the industrial revolution.}} (Baruch, 1998).
* {{quotation | Empowerment is not merely a new buzzword introduced to capture the imagination of current trends in management science. It comprises an innovative approach to working with people and a shift from top-down management styles which have dominated control mechanism and managerial concepts in both theory and practice since the industrial revolution.}} (Baruch, 1998).


* Baruch's model provides an analytical framework for the organizational contexts of empoerment based on two dimensions: "belief in the idea of empowerment" and "fairness" (or honesty).
* Baruch's model provides an analytical framework for the organizational contexts of empowerment and is based on two dimensions: "belief in the idea of empowerment" and "fairness" (or honesty).


See also [[empowerment]], [[teacher empowerment]], learner empowerment.
See also [[empowerment]], [[teacher empowerment]], learner empowerment.
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== The model ==
== The model ==


                Low level of belief            High level of belief
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"Fair          Take empowerment                Delegate power and
approach"      off agenda                      renumerate accordingly
                (dissociated)                  (enlighted)
"Unfair        Apply fake                      Delegate power only
approach        empowerment
                (fraudulent)                    (miser)





Revision as of 15:23, 3 June 2006

Definition

  • “Empowerment is not merely a new buzzword introduced to capture the imagination of current trends in management science. It comprises an innovative approach to working with people and a shift from top-down management styles which have dominated control mechanism and managerial concepts in both theory and practice since the industrial revolution.” (Baruch, 1998).
  • Baruch's model provides an analytical framework for the organizational contexts of empowerment and is based on two dimensions: "belief in the idea of empowerment" and "fairness" (or honesty).

See also empowerment, teacher empowerment, learner empowerment.

The model

                Low level of belief             High level of belief

"Fair           Take empowerment                Delegate power and
approach"       off agenda                      renumerate accordingly
                (dissociated)                   (enlighted)
"Unfair         Apply fake                      Delegate power only
approach        empowerment
                (fraudulent)                    (miser)


References

  • Baruch, Yehuda (1998). Career Development International, Volume 3, Number 2, pp. 82-87. HTML retrieved 14:18, 3 June 2006 (MEST).