An examination of the mediating role of psychological empowerment on the relations between the job, interpersonal relationships, and work outcomes

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Liden, RC; Wayne, SJ; Sparrowe, RT
• 署名单位: University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037//0021-9010.85.3.407
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 407-416

摘要

A field investigation of 337 employees and their immediate superiors tested the mediating role of empowerment in relations between job characteristics, leader-member exchange (LMX), team-member exchange (TMX), and work outcomes. The meaning and competence dimensions of empowerment mediated the relation between job characteristics and work satisfaction. The meaning dimension also mediated the relation between job characteristics and organizational commitment. Contrary to prediction, empowerment did not mediate relations between LMX, TMX, and the outcome variables. Rather, LMX and TMX were directly related to organizational commitment. In addition,TMX was directly related to job performance. These findings suggest that work satisfaction is explained largely by job characteristics (through empowerment) but that LMX and TMX combine with job characteristics and empowerment to explain variation in organizational commitment and job performance.