. Sima Ajami; . Raziyeh Arab‑Chadegani
Volume 4, Issue 4 , August 2014, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
Information Technology (IT) is known as a valuable tool for information dissemination. Today,information communication technology can be used as a powerful tool to improve employees’quality ...
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Information Technology (IT) is known as a valuable tool for information dissemination. Today,information communication technology can be used as a powerful tool to improve employees’quality and efficiency. The increasing development of technology-based tools and theiradaptation speed with human requirements has led to a new form of the learning environmentand creative, active and inclusive interaction. These days, information is one of the mostimportant power resources in every organization and accordingly, acquiring information,especially central or strategic one can help organizations to build a power base and influenceothers. The aim of this study was to identify the most important criteria in job empowermentusing IT and also the advantages of assessing empowerment. This study was a narrative review.The literature was searched on databases and journals of Springer, Proquest, PubMed, sciencedirect and scientific information database) with keywords including IT, empowerment andemployees in the searching areas of titles, keywords, abstracts and full texts. The preliminarysearch resulted in 85 articles, books and conference proceedings in which published between1983 and 2013 during July 2013. After a careful analysis of the content of each paper, a totalof 40 papers and books were selected based on their relevancy. According to Ardalan ModelIT plays a significant role in the fast data collection, global and fast access to a broad rangeof health information, a quick evaluation of information, better communication among healthexperts and more awareness through access to various information sources. IT leads to abetter performance accompanied by higher efficiency in service providing all of which willcause more satisfaction from fast and high-quality services.
