A FORMATIVE APPROACH TO EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT USING LISREL 8.7 – A DEEPER EXAMINATION

چکیده مقاله

This paper develops a new formative model for employee empowerment among nurses inprivate hospitals with cross-sectional survey data. Qualitative research on employeeempowerment is used to direct the theoretical model of employee empowerment among nurses inprivate health care sectors which are then tested using LISREL 8.7. The output of CFA is thenused to measure the constructs of employee empowerment. In modern years the concept ofemployee empowerment has been known a great deal of attention due to its significance on jobinvolvement and human resource practices. This paper reviews the employee empowermentliterature including its historical background, consequences, definitions, antecedents, dimensions
and different models that have been developed by academicians. From the literature review, anemployee empowerment basic model is proposed by Spreitzer (1994). The model is based onfour dimensions namely meaning, competence, self determination and impact of an individualand empowering working environment. The formative approach of the study confirms theconstraints that measures employee empowerment.

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