Organizational empowerment: the beginning of a healthy work management
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https://doi.org/10.51302/rtss.2011.5099Keywords:
structural empowerment, psychological empowerment, organizational commitment, labor well-being, working environment , intent to leaveAbstract
In this paper we analyze the relationship of empowerment (structural and psychological) to the three dimensions of organizational commitment as multidimensional model of Meyer and Allen (1991), labor well-being, working environment and intention to leave for workers. To do this we conducted a study with 56 workers from a Spanish company. The results showed how the establishment of structural empowerment strategies by the company management is an essential phase to get beneficial outcomes to the organization such as higher levels of commitment from workers, increased labor well-being, a better working environment and a lower intention to leave of employees. Likewise, the results also showed differences with those found in studies conducted in other countries with different cultures.
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