Cognitive Elements of Empowerment: An “Interpretive” Model of Intrinsic Task Motivation
提出一个认知模型，将赋权定义为增强的内在任务动机，识别出影响力、能力、意义感和选择四种认知作为基础，并采用解释性视角描述工人如何通过认知过程得出这些结论。
This article presents a cognitive model of empowerment. Here, empowerment is defined as increased intrinsic task motivation, and our subsequent model identifies four cognitions (task assessments) as the basis for worker empowerment: sense of impact, competence, meaningfulness, and choice. Adopting an interpretive perspective, we have used the model also to describe cognitive processes through which workers reach these conclusions. Central to the processes we describe are workers' interpretive styles and global beliefs. Both preliminary evidence for the model and general implications for research are discussed.