| Where
is the Power in Empowerment? by David M. Boje
& Grace Ann Rosile |
|
Title/Abstract |
| (1)
Review current empowerment-disempowerment
debate; |
| (2)
contextualizing Mary Parker Follett's work with a
review of the democratic workplace movements of
Marxist socialism, trade unionism, guilds,
cooperatives, and non-union workers' councils; |
| (3)
discussing Follett's theory of co-active power
circularity, with its roots in Hegel's and Dewey's
philosophy; |
| (4)
summarizing Clegg's circuits of power theory; See
Diagram. |
| (5)
combining Follett's power-as-capacity concept with
Clegg's circuits of power in an assimilative reading
we term "co-power," which can move us beyond
today's empowerment-disempowerment duality (See
Table); |
| (6)
drawing implications for organizational development
and change practices regarding co-power as a way of
linking micro and macro issues; and |
| (7)
offering conclusions regarding co-power as a way of
increasing the effectiveness of organizational change
efforts. |
| (And References). |
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