Linking organizational trust with employee engagement: the role of psychological empowerment
By F. Ugwu, Ike E. Onyishi, Alma Rodríguez-Sánchez. 2014
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Purpose – This study aims to investigate the relationship between organizational trust, psychological empowerment, and employee engagement. In addition, the study seeks to test the moderating role of psychological empowerment on the relationship between trust and engagement. Design/methodology/approach – Hierarchical regression analyses were carried out on a sample of 715 employees from seven commercial banks and four pharmaceutical companies in south-eastern Nigeria who participated in the survey. Findings – The results showed that organizational trust and psychological empowerment were predictors of work engagement. There was a moderating effect of empowerment on the relationship between trust and engagement. Research limitations/implications – The findings show that organizational trust and psychological empowerment that predict positive job behaviour in Western cultures are also critical in understanding Nigerian workers ' positive organizational behaviour such as work engagement. Practical implicatio...
Subfields: Demography, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology
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- How Does Sustainable Leadership Influence Sustainable Performance? Empirical Evidence From Selected ASEAN Countries (2020, background): “Being a job resource (Ugwu et al., 2014), psychological empowerment enables employees to follow their goals (Seibert et al.”
- Effective Employee Engagement in the Workplace (2017, background): “Ugwu, Onyishi, and Rodriguez-Sanchez (2014) suggested empowerment involves identifying the rights of employees and providing them with the proper resources for being successful.”