Step 1: Complete the following questionnaire.
The following items ask you to assess how you experience your work setting. If you are not currently working, think back to a previous job, or internship. Circle the number that most accurately depicts your assessment where:

Step 2: Add the totals of the following items:

Step 3 : Compare your scores to the following averages:

Step 4: In small groups, or with the entire class, discuss how your scores compare. Also, explore good examples of how empowerment has been developed in your organization, as well as how your organizations could approach empowerment more effectively. As part of this discussion, explore both the appropriate applications of empowerment as well as its limits and potential liabilities. Finally, explore how empowering each of you want to be as a leader.

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1 = Strongly disagree 1. The work I do is very important to me 2. I am confident about my ability to do my job 3 = Neutral 3. I have significant autonomy in determining how I do my job. 4. My impact on what happens in my department is large 5. My job activities are personally meaningful to me 6. I am self-assured about my capabilities to perform my work activities.... 7. I can decide on my own how to go about doing my work ....... 8. I have a great deal of control over what happens in my department........ 7 = Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 67 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7