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Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an American sociologist and business professor at Harvard Business School. She is known for her research on utopian communities, tokenism, gender issues, and management theory.
The theory is one of the first to examine comprehensively both the individual and the service systems, similar to theories of human ecology which were competitive in the same period. The theory undergirds the deinstitutionalization and community integration movements, and forms the legal basis for affirming rights to education, work, community ...
Organizational commitment is an individual's psychological attachment to the organization. Learn about Meyer and Allen's three-component model of commitment, its predictors and outcomes, and its conceptual critique.
Learn about David Kantor's life, career, and contributions to systems theory, communication, and leadership. He founded three research and training institutes, wrote several books, and developed the Structural Dynamics model of communication.
Empowerment is the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and communities to represent their interests and control their lives. Learn about the origin, definitions, methods, and challenges of empowerment in social work, education, management, and citizenship.
Empowerment evaluation was introduced in 1993 by David Fetterman during his presidential address at the American Evaluation Association’s (AEA) annual meeting. [1]The approach was initially well received by some researchers who commented on the complementary relationship between EE and community psychology, social work, community development and adult education.
Arlene S. Kanter is an American academic, lawyer and a Bond, Schoeneck & King Distinguished Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law. In 2005, she was named the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence by Syracuse University .
Learn about the six forms of social power identified by social psychologists John R. P. French and Bertram Raven: coercive, reward, legitimate, referent, expert, and informational. Find out how they affect social influence, leadership, and communication in different situations and contexts.