SOCIAL STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT.
研究基于高参与系统理论，探讨工作单元的社会结构特征（如角色模糊、控制幅度、社会政治支持、信息和资源获取、工作单元氛围）与管理者心理赋权感受之间的关系，发现低角色模糊、强社会政治支持、信息可及和参与性氛围的工作单元与赋权感正相关。
A set of hypotheses based on emerging theory on high-involvement systems describes expected relationships between social structural characteristics at the level of the work unit (perceptions of role ambiguity, span of control, sociopolitical support, access to information and resources, and work unit climate) and feelings of empowerment. The hypotheses are examined with data on a sample of middle managers from diverse units of a Fortune 50 organization. A work unit with little role ambiguity, strong sociopolitical support, access to information, and a participative unit climate is found to be associated with managerial perceptions of empowerment, as is working for a boss who has a wide span of control.