Download or read book The Mediation of Empowering Leadership on Psychological Empowerment with Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction written by Kenneth M. Bixby and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations all over the world are working to ensure they are as effective and competitive as possible. Researchers intending to help both leaders and organizations improve performance have studied several versions of the variables of empowerment, transformational leadership, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction. Through the studies researchers have frequently demonstrated the relationship of each of these variables. In an effort to help leaders understand the actions they can implement to improve organizational performance, many recent studies have been focused on developing a more complete model of empowerment that explains how empowerment contributes to the outcome variables of organizational commitment and job satisfaction. This study extends research in this important area by testing the mediation of empowering leadership on the relationship of the independent variable of psychological empowerment with the dependent variables, organizational commitment and job satisfaction. The study provided support for empowering leadership functioning as a mediator between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment but not job satisfaction.

Download or read book Self Leadership written by Christopher P. Neck and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership (Christopher P. Neck, Charles C. Manz, & Jeffery D. Houghton), Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence offers powerful yet practical advice for leading yourself to personal excellence. Grounded in research, this milestone book is based on a simple yet revolutionary principle: First learn to lead yourself, and then you will be in a solid position to effectively lead others. This inclusive approach to self-motivation and self-influence equips readers with the strategies and tips they need to build a strong foundation in the study of management, as well as enhancing their own personal effectiveness.

Download or read book Managing Social and Ethical Issues in Organizations written by Stephen W. Gilliland and published by IAP. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides up-to-date reviews of the research on a number of social and ethical issues of increasing concern confronting today's managers and organizations. The authors, who are recognized international experts on the topics they treat, provide new theories and innovative perspectives on these issues. Further, they use a research base to identify ways for managers and human resources professionals to address these issues in their organizations. Given its breadth of coverage, practitioners faced with these issues, as well as researchers and graduate students in management and organizational psychology, should find this volume of interest. This collection of ten chapters provides the cutting edge on a number of the most pressing challenges in management today. Readers of the volume will discover new models, innovative theoretical approaches, comprehensive reviews, theoretical and methodological critiques, and specific and insightful suggestions for research on these different social and ethical issues facing organizations. Perhaps more importantly, the practical suggestions that come from the research provide a useful bridge between what we know and what we can do to address these challenges, and thus contribute, even in a small way, to workplaces that respect ethics and individuals in all their diversity.

Download or read book Emotions in Groups Organizations and Cultures written by Charmine E. J. Härtel and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of emotions in organizations is unlocking exciting insights into why employees behave as they do in groups, organizations and in different cultural contexts. This title showcases a collection of the work advancing knowledge and practice in these areas.

Download or read book Full Leadership Development written by Bruce J. Avolio and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I found this book a real treat. It has the rare quality of being both profound and light at the same time. . . . It has the potential for appealing to a large audience, including managers, consultants, trainers, students, and researchers. For some of them, it will make a real difference in their life and work. Few books do." -- Boas Shamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem People interested in developing their own leadership potential, or the leadership potential of those around them, will find a wealth of knowledge in Full Leadership Development. The author approaches the concept of leadership as a system, not only as a process or a person. His framework is based on what he defines as the full range of leadership: people, timing, resources, the context of interaction, and the expected results in performance and motivation. He contends that when a leadership system is optimized, it in turn optimizes the vital force of each individual, thereby enhancing the collective force of the entire organization. The quality of the relationships among the leaders, their peers, and followers is a source of enrichment for all involved. Bruce J. Avolio models his theory for leadership through his writing style. The author pulls together his experiences and perspectives from all aspects of his life, providing a rich foundation for his theories. He uses personal examples, anecdotes, and cases to communicate his range of experience as a consultant, trainer, and researcher, as well as a traveler, spouse, and parent. The result is a conversational and accessible book that engages the reader with its interactive style.

Download or read book Work Happiness and Unhappiness written by Peter Warr and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment of happiness, and combines environmental and person-based themes to explain differences in people's experience. A framework of key job characteristics is linked to an account of primary mental processes, and those are set within a summary of demographic, cultural, and occupational patterns. Consequences of happiness or unhappiness for individuals and groups are also reviewed, as is recent literature on unemployment and retirement. Although primarily focusing on job situations, the book shows that processes of happiness are similar across settings of all kinds. It provides a uniquely comprehensive assessment of research published across the world. Initial chapters explore the several meanings of happiness and the ways in which those have been measured by psychologists. The construct includes pleasure, satisfaction and subjective well-being, and unhappiness has been studied in terms of dissatisfaction, strain, anxiety, and depression. The impacts of principal environmental features on these experiences are reviewed through an analogy with vitamins in relation to physical health—beneficial only up to a point. However, environmental effects are not fixed. Influences on happiness from within the person are examined in terms of principal thinking patterns, personality styles, and cultural backgrounds. Differences are explored between groups (men and women, older and younger people, employees who are full-time and part-time, and so on), and processes of person-environment fit are placed within an overall framework which emphasizes the impact of variations in personal salience. The book is written primarily for academic readers, including senior undergraduates, graduate students, teachers, and researchers in fields of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Management, Human Resources, and Labor Studies. However, the topic's centrality in many professions makes it important also to a wider readership.

Download or read book Emotional and Physiological Processes and Positive Intervention Strategies written by Pamela L. Perrewé and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview / Pamela L. Perrewé, Daniel C. Ganster -- Performance impacts of appraisal and coping with stress in workplace settings : the role of affect and emotional intelligence / Neal M. Ashkanasy, Claire E. Ashton-James, Peter J. Jordan -- The impact of display rules and emotional labor on psychological well-being at work / Russell Cropanzano, Howard M. Weiss, Steven M. Elias -- Areas of worklife : a structured approach to organizational predictors of job burnout / Michael P. Leiter, Christina Maslach -- Feeling vigorous at work? The construct of vigor and the study of positive affect in organizations / Arie Shirom -- Social influence and job stress : direct, intervening, and non-linear effects / Wayne A. Hochwarter -- Beyond self-report : using observational, physiological, and situation-based measures in research on occupational stress / Norbert K. Semmer, Simone Grebner, Achim Elfering -- Eustress : an elusive construct, an engaging pursuit / Debra L. Nelson, Bret L. Simmons -- Democracy at work and its relationship to health / Töres Theorell -- Executives : engines for positive stress / James Campbell Quick, David Mack, Joanne H. Gavin, Cary L. Cooper, Jonathan D. Quick.

Download or read book How Does Employee Empowerment Contribute to Higher Individual and Workgroup Performance an Empirical Assessment of a Trickle down Model in Law Enforcement Agencies in Ohio written by Jongsoo Park and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies on empowerment in public administration have shown many benefits of employee empowerment, including higher job satisfaction, organizational commitment, innovative behavior, and perception of workgroup performance (Fernandez & Moldogaziev, 2011, 2013a, 2013b). However, empowerment's potential contributions to individual and organizational performance remain largely unexplored. The few studies that have examined the connection between employee empowerment and performance outcomes relied on self-reported measures, which are unreliable and inaccurate (Meier & O'Toole, 2013). Moreover, these studies do not provide much insight about the underlying processes through which empowerment from the top of an organization may trickle down to the bottom of the organization. The present study fills these gaps by examining the direct and indirect effects of empowering managerial practices on attitudes, behaviors, and performance of employees at both the individual and workgroup levels. The main research question of this study is: does empowerment lead to higher employee and organization performance in public agencies? To address this question, the study develops a cascading or "trickle-down" model of empowering leadership, in which senior managers' empowering managerial practices are expected to influence junior managers' empowerment practices, which, in turn, are expected to affect frontline employees' work behaviors. More specifically, this study first examines how senior managers' empowering leadership practices affects junior managers' feelings of being empowered and their use of empowering practices toward their direct reports. Second, this study examines the association of junior managers' empowering leadership practices with performance outcomes at different levels. These effects are evaluated in relation to employee effectiveness (i.e., task performance, conscientiousness, and voice), workgroup effectiveness (unit-level task performance, conscientiousness, and voice as well as overall work-unit effectiveness), and managerial effectiveness. Finally, assuming a distinction in the leadership influence between upper and lower levels (Yang, Zhang, & Tsui, 2010), this study examines whether the influence of senior managers' empowering leadership practices can be achieved through full or partial mediation (i.e., the cascading effect) by junior managers' psychological empowerment and their empowering leadership practices. These linkages are assessed with data collected from 507 manager-supervisor-subordinate triads in law enforcement agencies in Ohio. The problem of common method bias is addressed by employing three separate surveys and three sources of data: frontline employees, line supervisors (i.e., junior police officers), and senior team leaders (i.e., senior police officers). The analysis shows a positive relationship between senior (upper-level) and junior police officers (lower-level)' empowering leadership and this relationship is mediated by junior police officers' perceived psychological empowerment. It also reveals positive associations between junior police officers' empowering leadership (lower-level) practices and the behaviors and performance of their direct reports and workgroups. Furthermore, the analysis suggests that the influence of senior police officers' empowering leadership on group-level performance outcomes are mediated first by junior police officers' perceptions of psychological empowerment and second by their use of empowering leadership. However, there is only marginal support for such three-path mediation effects on employee in-role and extra-role behaviors at the individual level. Finally, while junior police officers' empowering leadership is positively related to subordinate ratings of managerial effectiveness, there is no such association with supervisor ratings of managerial effectiveness. The present study provides a better understanding of the influences of employee empowerment across organizational hierarchy, by demonstrating that the influences of empowering leadership occur not only directly, among immediate followers, but also indirectly, across hierarchical levels, through the cascading of senior leaders' influences on subordinate leader behaviors. Theoretical and practical implications for research on empowering leadership, psychological empowerment, individual and group-level performance outcomes, and managerial effectiveness are discussed.

Download or read book The psychological outcomes for leadership and employees in the education sector written by Muhammad Waheed Akhtar and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability written by Susan E. Jackson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Human Resources for Environmental Sustainability The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) is the premier membership organization for those practicing industrial and organizational psychology. The Society's mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice, and teaching of industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology. I-O psychologists apply research that improves the well-being and performance of people and the organizations that employ them. This involves everything from workforce planning, employee selection, and leader development to studying job attitudes and job motivation, implementing work teams, and facilitating organizational change. SIOP is a nonprofit organization with more than 6,000 members. While an independent organization with its own governance, SIOP is also a division within the American Psychological Association and an organizational affiliate of the Association for Psychological Science.

Download or read book ECMLG 2019 15th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by Professor Anabela Mesquita and published by Academic Conferences and publishing limited. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work written by P. Alex Linley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines what positive psychology offers to our understanding of key issues in working life today. The chapters focus on such topics as strengths, leadership, human resource management, employee engagement, communications, well-being, and work-life balance.

Download or read book Empowering Leadership Behavior and Job Performance written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本研究以賦權領導行為對工作績效的影響為主軸,其中並以心理賦權為中介變項及關係衝突為干擾變項,探討賦權領導行為,心理賦權,關係衝突與工作績效之關係.本研究以台灣的五所中學為研究對象,從教師與學生兩個來源來蒐集樣本,共發放200組,經删除填答不完整及配對確認之問卷,共回收109組有效配對問卷,有效回收率為54.5%.

Download or read book Positive organizational psychology and leadership in organizational behavior and culture written by Gozde Sezen-Gultekin and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Work Engagement written by Arnold B. Bakker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2010-04-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.

Download or read book Employee Empowerment written by Sanjay T. Menon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The empirical test of the proposed theoretical framework was carried out in two stages. Phase I was devoted to the development of a psychometrically sound measure of empowerment. Phase II was concerned with construct validation through the testing of hypotheses relating the empowerment construct to other established constructs." --

Download or read book Psychological Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in the Banking Sector written by Elizabeth George and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how psychological empowerment can influence and enhance job satisfaction. The authors argue that in today’s working climate the wellbeing and involvement of employees is of utmost importance to any company’s overall success and that management techniques like empowerment are the most effective means of achieving this goal. Based on an empirical study examining job satisfaction amongst employees of several private sector, public sector and new generation banks in Kerala, India as well as extensive literature review, this book discusses the role psychological empowerment plays in enhancing job satisfaction both locally and internationally. It goes on to analyze four dimensions of psychological empowerment and the role of job satisfaction in the relationship between psychological empowerment and job related stress. This book will be of great interest to scholars in management and psychology and is essential reading for industrialists and managers wanting to apply empowerment strategies in their own workplace.