Abstract
Most research to date has approached employee empowerment as an individual-level phenomenon. In this study we proposed a work-unit-level construct, empowerment climate, and tested a multiple-level model integrating macro and micro approaches to empowerment. Empowerment climate was shown to be empirically distinct from psychological empowerment and positively related to manager ratings of work-unit performance. A cross-level mediation analysis using hierarchical linear modeling showed that psychological empowerment mediated the relationships between empowerment climate and individual performance and job satisfaction.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 332-349 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Academy of Management Journal |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Business and International Management
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Strategy and Management
- Management of Technology and Innovation