Enhancing commitment through work empowerment
By A. Liu, W. Chiu, R. Fellows. 2007
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Purpose – The research objectives are to investigate the perception of work empowerment of quantity surveyors and to determine whether perceived work empowerment is an antecedent of commitment.Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory study amongst quantity surveyors in four different types of construction industry organisations in Hong Kong is conducted. Data are collected by use of established questionnaires, yielding 136 valid responses.Findings – Organisational commitment comprises dimensions of effectiveness and continuance. It is found that when the perception of work empowerment increases, organisational commitment increases accordingly. Work empowerment is related to affective commitment rather than continuance commitment. Professional qualification and nationality are positively correlated with both dimensions of organisational commitment. Chinese chartered quantity surveyors show more commitment to their organisations. Generally, male QS shows less continuance commitment and the longer the QS...
Subfields: Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Performance consequences of psychological empowerment (2009, result): “Similar findings of positive outcomes within Chinese context have also been reported recently by Aryee and Chen (2006), Liu et al. (2007) as well as Humborstad et al. (2008).”
- Investigating the relationship between organizational justice, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior: An empirical model (2011, background): “Conducted studies have supported a positive relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment (Liu et al., 2007; Liden et al., 2000; Vacharakiat, 2008).”