Who is empowered? Relative importance of dispositional and situational sources to psychological empowerment

Simonet, Daniel; Miller, Katherine E.; Luu, Sylvia; Askew, Kevin L.; Narayan, Anupama; Cunningham, Sydnie; Peña, Camila; Attar, Amen; Fonseca, Rose; Kobezak, Holly M.

doi:10.1080/1359432x.2019.1624532

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“…, 2010; Zhang and Bartol, 2010). This finding fits well with a long-established principle of occupational psychology regarding job characteristics necessary to imbue activities with an intrinsically motivating quality (Hackman and Oldham, 1976; Simonet et al. , 2019; Wang et al.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…The finding that leading with autonomy boosts followers' performance is consistent with prior evidence on the beneficial effects of empowering leadership on various individual and organizational outcomes (Chen et al, 2011;Lorinkova et al, 2012;Martin et al, 2013;Raub and Robert, 2010;Vecchio et al, 2010;Zhang and Bartol, 2010). This finding fits well with a long-established principle of occupational psychology regarding job characteristics necessary to imbue activities with an intrinsically motivating quality (Hackman and Oldham, 1976;Simonet et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2020;Spreitzer, 1995). Self-determination theory (Ryan and Deci, 2000) assumes that the more autonomy followers are granted, the more self-determination they experience and the higher their work engagement will be.…”

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Turning visions into results: unraveling the distinctive paths of leading with vision and autonomy to goal achievement

Maran

Baldegger

Klösel

2021

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PurposeLeading with vision while granting employees autonomy is one effective organizational response to the demands of a dynamic external environment. The former is thought to align followers' behavior by providing guidance, the latter to increase variance in their behavior by relinquishing control; both exert beneficial but distinct effects on organizational performance. What has remained uncharted heretofore is how these leader behaviors shape their followers' cognition and, subsequently, yield improvements in performance. The authors argue that a leader's vision communication transforms followers' cognitive representation of their work. This not only enables them to specify their goals in alignment with the vision (goal clarity) but also to locate the meaning of their work within the bigger picture of the vision (construal level). By contrast, perceived autonomy in terms of power-sharing might directly affect followers' work engagement more narrowly.Design/methodology/approachThe authors tested the model on a sample of 408 employees from eleven enterprises of a holding company. In the survey, employees reported perceived vision communication and autonomy provided by their leader. Furthermore, the authors assessed the employees' goal attainment. To capture how employees represent their daily work activities, the authors measured their construal level and their goal clarity.FindingsThe results show that both perceived vision communication and granted autonomy improve employees' goal achievement. Moreover, two processes mediate the relationship between vision communication and goal achievement in followers: first, specifying goals in terms of clarity; second, composing a higher-level mental construal of their work. In contrast, no mediation of empowering leader behaviors was found.Originality/valueBetter goal achievement through visionary leadership is therefore achieved through cognitive alignment of followers, while leader-granted autonomy acts as a motivational tool directly on performance.

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Turning visions into results: unraveling the distinctive paths of leading with vision and autonomy to goal achievement

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Baldegger

Klösel

2021

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“…The same can be said in the case of intentions to use the bike: indeed, it is more likely that in deciding to use the bike for daily commuting, people consider all the factors involved (e.g., presence of infrastructures, the opinion of friends and relatives) and attribute a weight to each one. Dominance analysis was employed as a valuable statistical tool to determine the importance of predictors in various studies conducted in various psychological fields, such as cognition (Gellersen et al, 2021), customer satisfaction (Garver and Williams, 2019), family (Oyarzún-Farías et al, 2021), personality (Duan et al, 2021), organization (Simonet et al, 2019), and religion (Hichy et al, 2014). All those studies have identified the variables that influence the criterion; moreover, they have the advantage of establishing which variable is the most important and, therefore, on which variable it is convenient to intervene.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Dominance analysis was employed as a valuable statistical tool to determine the importance of predictors in various studies conducted in various psychological fields, such as cognition ( Gellersen et al, 2021 ), customer satisfaction ( Garver and Williams, 2019 ), family ( Oyarzún-Farías et al, 2021 ), personality ( Duan et al, 2021 ), organization ( Simonet et al, 2019 ), and religion ( Hichy et al, 2014 ). All those studies have identified the variables that influence the criterion; moreover, they have the advantage of establishing which variable is the most important and, therefore, on which variable it is convenient to intervene.…”

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Comparing the Relative Importance of Predictors of Intention to Use Bicycles

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The use of bicycles for active commuting is an important target to reach because of the importance of increasing physical activity among the population and improving the air quality in cities. Among the models that have been utilized in previous studies, the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) has shown good results in terms of the total variance obtained. However, establishing the relative importance of the TPB variables is difficult. In the present study, which was carried out in the Italian context, the authors sought to establish the weight of the proposed variables based on the dominance analysis approach. Considering the initiatives, which the Italian government carries out, and the particular period in which the study was developed, the authors included two variables in addition to the classical factors: financial incentives and daily commuting habits. A survey was administered to 294 Italians (222 females and 72 males, from 18 to 77 years old) through social networks from July to September 2020. The results have shown how the main predictor of bicycle use was use habits, followed almost at the same level by financial incentives and attitude, while norms and perceived behavioral control (PBC) present low relative importance among the variables considered. Limits of the study have been discussed, and suggestions for future research have been proposed.

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“…Organizations would also benefit from interventions seeking to promote self-directed decision making, enactive mastery experiences, and opportunities for personal growth. Moreover, organizational changes seeking to promote task variety, significance, and identity might increase employees' PE levels while helping to ensure balance among PE facets (Simonet et al, 2019). In particular, increases in task variety are likely to be most useful for employees who already have access to training opportunities in order to develop the skills required to tackle the new tasks, and to all relevant information (Parker, 1998).…”

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Work Fatigue Profiles: Nature, Implications, and Associations With Psychological Empowerment

Blais¹,

Gillet

Houle

et al. 2020

Front. Psychol.

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The present study examined the distinct configurations, or profiles, taken by work fatigue dimensions among samples of military (n = 1,436) and civilian (n = 2,477) employees. We also tested profile similarity across these two samples of employees. In addition, this research documented the relations between the identified work fatigue profiles, one predictor variable (psychological empowerment), and a series of attitudinal outcomes (job satisfaction, career satisfaction, and turnover intentions) among military employees. Six profiles of employees characterized by different levels of global and specific (emotional, physical, and mental) work fatigue were identified using latent profile analyses: Low Fatigue, Physically and Emotionally Depleted, Emotionally Depleted, Globally and Mentally Depleted, Globally and Emotionally Depleted, and Balanced. In both samples, employees corresponding to the Balanced profile displayed average levels of global and specific work fatigue. However, this profile slightly differed across sample, as indicated by the observation of work fatigue levels that were slightly higher among the military than among civilians. Militaries’ perceptions of psychological empowerment were significantly related to their likelihood of belonging to all profiles. In turn, militaries’ career satisfaction, job satisfaction, and turnover intentions were also found to differ as a function of profile membership.

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Who is empowered? Relative importance of dispositional and situational sources to psychological empowerment

Cited by 9 publications

References 111 publications

Turning visions into results: unraveling the distinctive paths of leading with vision and autonomy to goal achievement

Turning visions into results: unraveling the distinctive paths of leading with vision and autonomy to goal achievement

Comparing the Relative Importance of Predictors of Intention to Use Bicycles

Work Fatigue Profiles: Nature, Implications, and Associations With Psychological Empowerment

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