Empowerment

ARTICLES

• Bartunek, J., & Spreitzer, G. (2006). The interdisciplinary career of a popular construct used in management: Empowerment in the late 20th century. Journal of Management Inquiry, 15(3), 255–273.

• Spreitzer, G., & Mishra, A. (2002). To stay or go: Voluntary survivor turnover following an organizational downsizing. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23, 707–729.

• Finegold, D., Mohrman, S., & Spreitzer, G. (2002). Age effects on the predictors of technical workers’ commitment and willingness to turnover. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23, 655–674.

• Shapiro, D., Furst, S., Spreitzer, G., & Von Glinow, M. (2002). Transnational teams in an electronic age. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23, 455–467.

• Quinn, R., Spreitzer, G., & Brown, M. (2000). Changing others through changing ourselves: The transformation of human systems. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(2), 147–164.

• Spreitzer, G., De Janesz, S., & Quinn, R. (1999). Empowered to lead: The role of psychological empowerment in leadership. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20(4), 511–526.

• Spreitzer, G., Cohen, S., & Ledford, G. (1999). Developing effective self-managing work teams in service organizations. Group and Organizational Management, 24(3), 340–366.

• Spreitzer, G., & Mishra, A. (1999). Giving up control without losing control: Trust and its substitutes’ effects on managers’ involving employees in decision making. Group and Organization Management, 24(2), 155–187.

• Quinn, R., & Spreitzer, G. (1997). The road to empowerment: Seven questions every leader should consider. Organizational Dynamics, 26(2), 37–51.

• Spreitzer, G., Kizilos, M., & Nason, S. (1997). A dimensional analysis of the relationship between psychological empowerment and effectiveness, satisfaction, and strain. Journal of Management, 23(5), 679–704.

• Spreitzer, G. (1996). Social structural characteristics of psychological empowerment. Academy of Management Journal, 39(2), 483–504.

• Spreitzer, G., & Quinn, R. (1996). Empowering middle managers to be transformational leaders. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 32(3), 237–261. 

• Cohen, S., Ledford, G., & Spreitzer, G. (1996). A predictive model of self-managing work team effectiveness. Human Relations, 49(5), 643–676.

• Spreitzer, G. (1995). Psychological empowerment in the workplace: Dimensions, measurement, and validation. Academy of Management Journal, 38(5), 1442–1465.

• Spreitzer, G. (1995). An empirical test of a comprehensive model of intrapersonal empowerment in the workplace. American Journal of Community Psychology, 23(5), 601–629.

• Spreitzer, G., Quinn, R., & Fletcher, J. (1995). Excavating the paths of meaning, renewal, and empowerment: A typology of managerial high-performance myths. Journal of Management Inquiry, 4, 16–39.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Spreitzer, G. (2008). Taking stock: A review of more than twenty years of research on empowerment at work. In The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Behavior (pp. 54–72). SAGE Publications. 

• Spreitzer, G., & Doneson, D. (2007). Musings on the past and future of employee empowerment. In The Handbook of Organizational Development (pp. 311–324). SAGE Publications.

• Spreitzer, G. (2006). Empowerment. In Encyclopedia of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (pp. 202–206). SAGE Publications.

• Spreitzer, G., Noble, D., Mishra, A., & Cooke, W (1999). Predicting process improvement team performance in an automotive firm: Explicating the roles of trust and empowerment. In Research on Groups and Teams (Vol. 2; pp. 71–92). JAI Press.

• Spreitzer, G. (1997). Toward common ground in defining empowerment. In Research in Organizational Change and Development (Vol. 10; pp. 31–62). JAI Press.