Linking job motivating potential to frontline employee attitudes and performance: testing the mediating role of psychological empowerment

Koen Dewettinck and Dirk Buyens

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Abstract: In this study, we relate job motivating potential to frontline employee job satisfaction, affective commitment and performance levels and test the mediating role of psychological empowerment. Based on a sample of 1129 employee – supervisor dyads, we found that employee psychological empowerment fully mediates the relationship between job motivating potential and the outcome variables. Our findings confirm the importance of job design approaches to empowering employees. Next to proposing potential avenues for further research, we discuss some suggestions on how to put job redesign strategies into practice.

Keywords: empowerment; job motivating potential; employee performance; mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2006-07-07
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