Locus of control, psychological empowerment and intrinsic motivation relation to performance

By Yi Li, Feng juan Wei, S.-C. Ren, Y. Di. 2015

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the relationship between psychological empowerment and R & D employees’ performance. The moderating effect of locus of control and the mediating effect of intrinsic work motivation are also examined. Design/methodology/approach – The questionnaires were completed by 209 R & D employees and their immediate supervisors of a large foreign-funded R & D institute in China. Hierarchical regression and bias-corrected bootstrap procedures were used to test the hypotheses. Findings – Results demonstrate that psychological empowerment is positively related to R & D employees’ task, contextual and innovation performance. The relationship between psychological empowerment and contextual and innovation performance was found to have been moderated by locus of control. Intrinsic work motivation partially mediates the psychological empowerment-work performance relationship. Research limitations/implications – This is a cross-sectional study, with data limited to a large R & ...

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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