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dc.contributor.authorMorrell, K
dc.contributor.authorWilkinson, A
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:09:40Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:09:40Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.issn1367-8868
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13678860110057647
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/16827
dc.description.abstractThis paper offers a five-fold typology for empowerment, which is intended to make it easier to assess and develop empowerment initiatives in a climate where much rhetoric surrounds the term. A real-world organizational sketch for each type follows an initial theoretical description and aphorism. The implications for HRD practitioners of each type of empowerment are also outlined. No exclusive or definitional treatment is offered for what we feel to be an elastic term. Instead, the framework is held up as a potential catalyst for provoking ideas about empowerment, or grouping existing ideas on how to empower. We sympathize with those who feel the term is redundant because it has been subsumed by the 'developmental rhetoric' (Clutterbuck 1998), and recognize that such rhetoric can be a barrier to change and learning (Harrison 1997). Nonetheless, we argue that, instead of abandoning the term empowerment altogether, it can be beneficial to see what has been accomplished under the existing banner.
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dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom119
dc.relation.ispartofpageto130
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHuman Resource Development International
dc.relation.ispartofvolume5
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBusiness and Management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1503
dc.titleEmpowerment: through the smoke and past the mirrors?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2002 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Human Resource Development International, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 119-130. Human Resource Development International is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
gro.date.issued2015-05-12T05:11:17Z
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gro.griffith.authorWilkinson, Adrian J.


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