TY  - JOUR
AB  - Empowerment, a term often misunderstood, is a synergistic process of individual development through which the base of influence in an organization is enlarged. Individual empowerment requires that the philosophy of the organization, principally enacted through its administrative system, support employees in accomplishing organizational goals. Support comes from effective and efficient managerial allocation of organizational resources. Two different organizational philosophies are presented and discussed in terms of their impact on empowerment: organizational resource conservation and organizational resource integration. Differences between the philosophies are explained through a conceptual model of preventing failure versus assuring success. Implications of each philosophy for the practice of management in knowledge organizations are discussed. These implications are based on the assumption that managerial behaviors determine how successful will be the process of empowerment.
VL  - 7
IS  - 8
SN  - 1463-4449
DO  - 10.1108/14634449910303603
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14634449910303603
A1  - King Duvall Cheryl
PY  - 1999
Y1  - 1999/01/01
TI  - Developing individual freedom to act: Empowerment in the knowledge organization
T2  - Participation and Empowerment: An International Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 204
EP  - 212
Y2  - 2019/12/10
ER  -