Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings

With more organizations looking for employees who take the initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Empowered employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. Ac...

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Autores: Orgambídez Ramos, Alejandro, Borrego Alés, Yolanda
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)
Repositorio:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
Idioma:inglés
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Empowerment
Power
Resources
Support
Information
Opportunity
Job satisfaction
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spelling Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settingsOrgambídez Ramos, AlejandroBorrego Alés, YolandaEmpowermentPowerResourcesSupportInformationOpportunityJob satisfactionWith more organizations looking for employees who take the initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Empowered employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to Kanter's structural empowerment, this study examines the role of access to opportunity, resources, support and information, and two types of power, formal and informal, as antecedents of job satisfaction. A cross sectional study using questionnaires was conducted. The sample consisted of 226 Spanish university teachers. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses have revealed that intrinsic job satisfaction was significantly predicted by formal power and access to opportunity, and job satisfaction with supervisor was predicted by informal power, and access to resources, information, and support. Results support Kanter's theory of structural empowerment, and suggest strong relationships between job satisfaction and structural empowerment. It is a link between empowering work settings and organizational outcomes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, effectiveness). On a practical level, Kanter's structural empowerment theory provides a framework for understanding empowering workplaces and empowered employees.PsychOpen20142014-01-0120142014-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10272/11488reponame:Arias Montano. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelvainstname:Universidad de Huelva (UHU)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ariasmontano.uhu.es:10272/114882026-06-02T14:58:11Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
title Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
spellingShingle Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
Orgambídez Ramos, Alejandro
Empowerment
Power
Resources
Support
Information
Opportunity
Job satisfaction
title_short Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
title_full Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
title_fullStr Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
title_full_unstemmed Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
title_sort Empowering employees : structural empowerment as antecedent of job satisfaction in university settings
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Orgambídez Ramos, Alejandro
Borrego Alés, Yolanda
author Orgambídez Ramos, Alejandro
author_facet Orgambídez Ramos, Alejandro
Borrego Alés, Yolanda
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author2 Borrego Alés, Yolanda
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Empowerment
Power
Resources
Support
Information
Opportunity
Job satisfaction
topic Empowerment
Power
Resources
Support
Information
Opportunity
Job satisfaction
description With more organizations looking for employees who take the initiative and respond creatively to the challenges of the job, empowerment becomes important at both individual and organizational levels. Empowered employees are generally more satisfied with their work, committed and effective at work. According to Kanter's structural empowerment, this study examines the role of access to opportunity, resources, support and information, and two types of power, formal and informal, as antecedents of job satisfaction. A cross sectional study using questionnaires was conducted. The sample consisted of 226 Spanish university teachers. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses have revealed that intrinsic job satisfaction was significantly predicted by formal power and access to opportunity, and job satisfaction with supervisor was predicted by informal power, and access to resources, information, and support. Results support Kanter's theory of structural empowerment, and suggest strong relationships between job satisfaction and structural empowerment. It is a link between empowering work settings and organizational outcomes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, effectiveness). On a practical level, Kanter's structural empowerment theory provides a framework for understanding empowering workplaces and empowered employees.
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