Moved by the spirit: contextualizing workplace empowerment in American spiritual ideals

Article Abstract:

The authors examine Christianity, utopianism, and New Age ideals applied to workplace organization and employee empowerment. Concepts drawn from these ideals include charismatic evangelism, perfectibility, and empowerment as ideology; potential costs to employees from using these approaches to empowerment are also discussed.

Spirituality

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What goes around, comes around: inventing a mythology of teamwork and empowerment

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The author presents a critique of the link between empowerment and teamwork, focusing on the theoretical assumption of teamwork as a natural form of preindustrial social organization. The author cautions against accepting this assumption to the exclusion of other potentially valid forms of organization.

Australia, Evaluation, Work groups, Teamwork (Workplace), Individualism, Group identity, Social identity, Industrial organization

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Where's the power in empowerment? Answers from Follett and Clegg

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The authors examine the works of theorists Mary Parker Follett and Stewart Clegg on employee power in the workplace environment. Follett's co-power hypothesis challenges the empowerment-disempowerment dualism of contemporary debates, while Clegg's circuits-of-power hypothesis provides a sociological understanding of systematic power relationships.

Criticism and interpretation, Follett Mary Parker, Clegg, Stewart

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