• Journal of Korean Academic Society of Home Health Care Nursing
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 2008

Purpose: The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of job characteristics on emotional empowerment in visiting health personnel. Methods: Subjects were recruited in ten community health care centers in one directorial area. Data collection was done using a self-report questionnaire. Job characteristics of visiting healthcare personnel were measured using the questionnaire developed by Kang (2006), based on Hackman & Oldham (1975). Emotional empowerment was measured using the questionnaire developed by Kang (2006), based on Spreitzer (1995). Results: First, the score of job characteristics was revealed to be 3.51 points the task significance was high, and the feedback was low. Second, the level of emotional empowerment was revealed to be 3.78 points the meaning was high, and the impact was low. Third, the prediction power of job characteristics on emotional empowerment was 34% autonomy, task identity, and task significance were identified as statistically significant predictive factors. Conclusion: The job characteristics of visiting healthcare personnel are highly correlated with emotional empowerment. Autonomy, task identity, and task significance are predictive factors of emotional empowerment. These results can be used to develop more effective job planning for increasing organizational effectiveness in visiting healthcare personnel.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.129-135
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• 2022

Purpose: This study aims to establish the effects of psychological empowerment on retail sales employees. It further investigates how psychological empowerment can be used to mitigate the factors that affect sales workers in addition to meeting the feelings and emotional wellbeing of sales workers to improve their productivity and the success of their organizations. Research design, data, and methodology: The current author conducted SPSS statistical analysis program to gauge the statistical association between two main constructs (Psychological Empowerment and Job performance) using 217 respondents. The main statistical tool was selected by a multiple regression methodology. Results: The statistical test from the analysis is presented in the finding section and shows that β values and P-values are greater than 0 and less than 0.05 respectively and thus, this research could reject null hypotheses which mention that psychological empowerment cannot be associated with job performance. Conclusions: All in all, this research could conclude that it will improve the attitudes of retail sales workers towards their job, making them self-committed to the tasks assigned through significant psychological empowerment factors. The retention of these workers would be enhanced because they would attain job satisfaction through a positive perception of the tasks assigned to them.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.99-119
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine the educational contents of home economics textbooks that solely focus on forming adolescent empowerment. For this, an in-depth content analysis was conducted on the home economics textbooks in Korea and the U.S. The main results of this study are summarized as follows: First, the 23 content elements, which are designed to build adolescent empowerment, were ascertained: nine intrapersonal empowerment elements such as the self-identity, nine interpersonal empowerment elements such as the communication, and five social empowerment elements such as the leadership. Second, based on the content elements selected from above, the textbooks in Korea were observed to deal with 58% of the 23 content elements, while those in the U.S. discussed 90% of the 23 content elements. Korean textbooks primarily focused on helping students understand major concepts, whereas the U.S. textbooks focused primarily on helping students make connections between major concepts and their life. Lastly, both countries put the least amount of weight on social empowerment content elements(Korea: 37%, U.S.: 70%).

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.50
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• pp.3-32
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to introduce Self-Empowerment Program focusing on empowering social workers in individual level and to evaluate effectiveness of the program through practicing it. For the purpose, this study reviewed the concept of self-empowerment, theoretical background and content of the program. It examined effects of the program on mental health social workers' self concepts and clients' evaluation of the social workers, also. Through applying the program and analysing it, some significant differences were found in total positive self, self identity, self satisfaction, self behavior, moral ethical self, personal self, and family self score between intervention group and control group after the program. In evaluation of the social workers by the clients, the score of social workers in intervention group was increased after the program than control group's. These findings suggested that this program be helpful for social workers' self-empowerment and relationship with clients. It is meaningful to prove utility of the program in our social work situation with limited training or growing opportunities for social workers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.216-226
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• 2013

This study is conducted to verify the effect on the job performance mediating job satisfaction of participant's self-leadership and empowerment for Senior Employment Programs. The questionnaire research targets, a total of 158, are used analysis on participants for Senior Employment Programs in Gwang-ju, Jeollanam-do, Jeollabuk-do, Jeju. In order to derive research result to use a SPSS Version 12.0 for Window program, and factorial analysis, reliability verification for each variable were used. Additionally, It was used to carry out hypothesis verification for Regression analysis. As a result, the study shows that the job performance is maximized by the mediation effect of job satisfaction with self-leadership and empowerment of participants on Senior Employment Programs. On the base of study result, this paper suggest for participants in Senior Employment Program to enforce method about Natural Reward Strategies, Meaning, Confidence, Impact.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.152-161
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• 2019

This study analyzed the relationship of turnover intention of clinical nurses with self-leadership, job involvement, and empowerment. The participants were 173 clinical nurses working in D city and K province in Korea. Data analysis consisted of independent t-tests, ANOVA, Scheffe's tests, Pearson's correlations, and stepwise multiple regression conducted using SPSS WIN 21.0. There was a significant correlation between self-leadership, job involvement, empowerment and turnover intention. Factors affecting turnover intention were total clinical career, position, salary, marital status and job involvement. Total clinical career was the most influential factor, with an explanatory power of 28.7%. Based on the results, it is necessary to reduce turnover intention of nurses through the development of educational programs to increase job involvement and reorganization of the hospital organization system to manage nursing manpower resources efficiently.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.157-166
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• 2015

The aim of this study is to understand the effects of a social capital discovery program on career identity and empowerment in adolescents under probation. As a result, it was discovered that the social capital discovery program had statistically significant differences in stability, goal orientation, distinctiveness and self-presence consciousness in the sub-area of career identity in adolescents under probation while there was no significant difference in the area of self-assertion. The social capital discovery program had statistically significant differences in internal and personal relationships among the sub-area of empowerment of the subjects while there were no significant differences in political-social areas. These results suggest that the social capital discovery program had significant effects on career identity and empowerment in adolescents under probation. In order to improve the career identity and empowerment in adolescents under probation, further studies on the social capital discovery program are needed and care should be paid to its usability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.403-417
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• 2011

The purpose of this research is to specifically verify the influence of empowerment factors of employees working at an advertising agency on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention to suggest useful data for advertising agencies' efficient management of human resources. First, this study proved that as the importance of meaning and self-determination among the subordinate infrastructure factors of empowerment is emphasized, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment are increased. If the importance of competence and impact factors is emphasized, job satisfaction is increased. Second, as the importance of job satisfaction and organizational commitment is emphasized, turnover intention is decreased. Third, as the importance of the meaning factor among the empowerment's factors such as meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact, is emphasized, turnover intention is decreased. The result implies that the executives of an advertising agency should try to increase the influence of empowerment on reducing turnover intention by enhancing job satisfaction and organizational commitment.

• Journal of Korean society of Dental Hygiene
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.831-838
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• 2014

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate the perception and practice of the infection control by empowerment in the dental hygienists. Methods: A self-reported questionnaire was filled out by 200 dental hygienists in Gyeongbuk from January 3 to February 20, 2013. Data were analyzed by SPSS 12.0 program. The instrument of impowerment was adapted from Spreitzer and consisted of 12 questions including meaning(4 questions), competency(4 questions), self-decision(4 questions), and impact(4 questions). Impowerment was score by Likert 5 scale and higher score means higher impowerment. The instrument for hand washing recognition and practice was adapted from Kim and consisted of hand washing(5 questions), personal protective clothing management(5 questions), contaminated appliance management(3 questions), sterilization(3 questions), and infection control environment(8 questions). The empowerment instrument was score by Likert 5 scale and the mean was 3.83 points. Based on 3.83, infection control recognition and practice were divided into upper group and lower group. Cronbach alpha was 0.951 in empowerment, 0.931 in recognition, and 0.924 in practice in the study. Results: Based on the average points of 3.83, the groups were divided into two groups including upper group and lower group. The upper group showed higher score in hand washing than the lower group. In the protective clothing management, the upper group changed the mask at one-hour interval(p<0.001). Conclusions: In the viewpoint of empowerment, it had a significant influence on the perception and practice of the dental infection control in the dental hygienists.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.292-300
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• 2012

This study was carried out in order to verify the influence that social welfare trust organizational culture and level of empowerment. The study object 656 copies of guns were used to analysis to social worker engaged in to the community welfare agency, old man welfare agency, disabled welfare agency which was social welfare use facilities. Organizational culture and empowerment as it was for an independent variable analyzed correlation to trust and executed regression analysis to grasp a degree of an influence to be mad to trust. Research result, first, Organizational culture appeared to what I affected to trust social group culture, development cultural artist and second, Level of empowerment of social worker appeared to what I affected to trust own a task meaning result and self-determination. There's social welfare is organized in order to improve social welfare gratitude confidence, and it is group culture and development culture, and an level of empowerment to recognize a social welfare private house gives meaning anger to a task and self-determination had to heighten it.