Abstract
This paper extends Work/Family Border Theory in the context of psychological empowerment. It describes the development, validation
and application of an additional dimension of empowerment, termed as “non-work domain control”. This dimension incorporates
an employee’s ability to take decisions at household and immediate community level, not related to formal workplace. The study
has three parts involving women primary school teachers of India. It included development of a measure and examining the pattern
of variation in non-work domain control (n=401) among primary school teachers. The results showed that age, educational qualification, salary, and class-size affect
some scale items. The result of structural equation modeling confirmed that non-work domain control is an additional dimension
of psychological empowerment.
and application of an additional dimension of empowerment, termed as “non-work domain control”. This dimension incorporates
an employee’s ability to take decisions at household and immediate community level, not related to formal workplace. The study
has three parts involving women primary school teachers of India. It included development of a measure and examining the pattern
of variation in non-work domain control (n=401) among primary school teachers. The results showed that age, educational qualification, salary, and class-size affect
some scale items. The result of structural equation modeling confirmed that non-work domain control is an additional dimension
of psychological empowerment.
- Content Type Journal Article
- Category Assessment
- Pages 1-9
- DOI 10.1007/s12646-011-0130-x
- Authors
- Anita Sarkar, XLRI School of Business & Human Resources, Jamshedpur, Circuit House Area (East), Jamshedpur, 831035 Jharkhand, India
- Manjari Singh, Wing-12D, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, 380015 Gujarat, India
- Journal Psychological Studies
- Online ISSN 0974-9861
- Print ISSN 0033-2968