Allyson,
perhaps this URL will provide you with what you're looking for...it also
references (with a hyperlink) the appropriate archives for the LO list.
regards,
Richard
http://www.thresholds.com/articles/empower.htm
Allyson Macdonald wrote:
> Lynette has mentioned something that a group of us here in Reykjavik have
> begun discussing. About eight of us who work in different and varied
> organizations get together about once a month to discuss issues that we
> encounter at work and we then try to look at these with views from the
> outside. We had decided that at our next meeting we would look at
> "empowerment" and what it meant for women and for men in Iceland. There
> is no Icelandic word for empowerment and for those of you who don't know
> Iceland foreign professional words are never imported directly into the
> language, unlike much of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. So we are both
> looking at the issue and trying to see if there is any way to describe it
> in Icelandic.
>
> Sometime last year, I think in May or June, there was a discussion about
> empowerment in some of the LO messages. I have looked over those messages
> in the archive and can't find the one I was looking for which was
> something very simple, like
>
> empowerment = control x authority x ?
>
> but I can't remember the rest ......
>
> can anyone help out, or does anyone have any "definitions" to offer us.
>
> Many thanks
> Allyson Macdonald <marey@nett.is>
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