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Psychological Empowerment and Job Satisfaction: An Analysis of Interactive Effects

Penn State University

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	Abstract

This research investigates the interactive effects of the psychological empowerment dimensions on job satisfaction. Using data collected from employees of multiple organizations, the authors find intriguing threeway interactions among the dimensions. Choice has a weak but negative effect on job satisfaction when both competence and impact are high or low but has a strong positive effect when one of the two dimensions is low and the other is high. Impact has no effect on job satisfaction when choice and competence are both high or both low. The effect of impact is positive only when one of the two dimensions is high and the other is low. In addition, high levels of choice and competence reinforce the positive effect of meaning on job satisfaction. The results offer important insights for future theory development on psychological empowerment.

First published on February 23, 2009, doi:10.1177/1059601108330089

Group & Organization Management 2009;34:271.

A more recent version of this article appeared on June 1, 2009


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