Our paper also contributed to prior research, as we drew a clear distinction between
organisational and psychological forms of empowerment. Organisational
empowerment was viewed as a multi-activity HRM practice. We defined
psychological empowerment as a work-related attitude, for it bears cognitive,
evaluative and behavioural aspects that are typically attributed to the concept of an
attitude. Respectively we suggested placing psychological empowerment among other
work-related attitudes (job satisfaction and commitment), and studying it as an
HR-related outcome