Am I empowered through meaningful work? The moderating role of perceived flexibility in connecting meaningful work and psychological empowerment

Jena, Lalatendu Kesari; Bhattacharyya, Pratishtha; Pradhan, Sajeet

doi:10.1016/j.iimb.2019.03.010

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“…From the mechanistic perspective, empowerment refers to the cascading power down to low-level employees. Whereas, empowerment means growth, risk, change, and trust to employees and bearing their mistakes from the organic perspective (Jena et al, 2019). Under mechanistic approach, empowerment is known as structural, hard, extrinsic, or communicative.…”

Section: Psychological Empowermentmentioning

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How Does Sustainable Leadership Influence Sustainable Performance? Empirical Evidence From Selected ASEAN Countries

2020

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Presently, sustainable leadership has emerged as an effective leadership style to cope with sustainable challenges. Extent literature has recommended exploring the mechanism and conditional boundaries for the significant effect of sustainable leadership on sustainable performance. Therefore, this study would investigate the mediating mechanism of organizational learning and the psychological empowerment as conditional factor on the sustainable leadership–sustainable performance relationship. The cluster-sampling approach was employed to collect data from 369 small medium enterprises in selected ASEAN countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei Darussalam. The response rate is 41%. Structural equation modeling (variance-based) analysis was performed to empirically confirm the proposed hypotheses. By running PROCESS Macro in SPSS, the moderated-mediation analysis was conducted in this study. The research outcomes revealed that higher level of psychological empowerment will result in a higher indirect effect of sustainable leadership on sustainable performance through organizational learning. Based on the present empirical evidences, implications and future research directions have also been added at the end of study. To date, this study has preliminary investigated the interplay of sustainable leadership, organizational learning, empowerment, and sustainable performance.

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Section: Psychological Empowermentmentioning

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How Does Sustainable Leadership Influence Sustainable Performance? Empirical Evidence From Selected ASEAN Countries

2020

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“…In his book, Passion before Prudence , Richard M. Gray (2014) argued that a person who is extremely passionate about his or her job to the extent that he or she experiences a calling in work would also be more prudent. Meaningful work ensures that a person enjoys better mental health and less life distresses (Allan et al, 2019; Bailey et al, 2019; Jena et al, 2019; Steger et al, 2012) by deriving more meaning out of life as a whole (Michaelson, 2005). This might lead the person to enjoy greater peace of mind, remain calmer, and invest time in better future planning, thus demonstrating prudence.…”

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“…Jena et al (2019) stated that OID could be a probable outcome of meaningful work, along with others like job satisfaction, commitment, or engagement. Drawing on the social exchange theory (SET) (Blau, 1964), one can argue that if an organisation fulfils an employee’s needs of meaningful work, the employee reciprocates by establishing a strong relationship between self-concept and organisational concept, resulting in higher OID.…”

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“…However, studies exploring meaningful work in the context of blue-collar employees are few (e.g., Lips-Wiersma et al, 2016; Lucas, 2011). In the Indian context, barring a few studies (e.g., Jena et al, 2019; Pradhan & Jena, 2017; Jena & Pradhan, 2017), there is hardly any research where the construct has been linked to civic virtue behaviour or prudence, in the presence of proposed moderators.…”

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Outcomes of Meaningful Work in the Context of Indian Blue-collar Employees: The Moderating Role of Relational Identification and Organisation-based Self-esteem

Jena

Pattnaik

2020

South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management

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The study investigates the moderating effect of relational identification and organisation-based self-esteem (OBSE) on the relationship between meaningful work and prudence, as well as meaningful work and civic virtue behaviour, in the context of blue-collar employees working in the Indian aeronautical manufacturing sector (IAMS). Survey data collected from 312 blue-collar employees showed that meaningful work has a positive influence on prudence as well as civic virtue behavior only at high levels of relational identification and OBSE. These relationships were insignificant at the lower level of the moderators. The findings of the study hold significant research, practice, and societal implications, because meaningful work in the context of blue-collar employees of the aeronautical industry has not been studied before, though this industry has high growth potential.

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“…According to Nursing Resilience Model proposed by Stephens (2012), teaching resilience to employees in medical settings increases self-confidence and fosters ethical sensitivity (14). One of the variables that may be related to Islamic work ethics is workforce flexibility (15) which is recognized as the ability to adjust and adapt to threats and opportunities (16). Wright and Snell (1992) argue that flexibility is the human resource utilization of the skills and behavior patterns needed to make the best decisions in a competitive environment, mainly in the three areas of task, skill, and behavior (17).…”

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Relationship of Flexibility and Resilience with Islamic Work Ethics

Rostami¹,

Zeinali

Firoozi

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Health Spiritual Med Ethics

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Background and Objectives: Islamic work ethics is influenced by several variables, such as some psychological components. In this regard, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship of flexibility and resilience with Islamic work ethics. Methods: The statistical population of the current descriptive-correlational study included all the employees of Shahid Mahallati Hospital in Tabriz in 2019. A total of 200 individuals were selected using nonprobability convenience sampling and answered the questionnaires of resilience, flexibility, and Islamic work ethic. The obtained data were analyzed in SPSS software using the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression test. A p-value less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: As evidenced by the obtained results, Islamic work ethic has a positive significant correlation with the components of resilience (personal competence (P<0.001), confidence in one's instincts (P<0.003), positive acceptance of change and secure relationships (P= 0.001), control and spiritual influences (P<0.004) and the components of flexibility (task flexibility (P<0.008), skill flexibility (P<0.001) and behavioral flexibility (P <0.00)). It was also found that resilience with 60% and flexibility with 45% can predict Islamic ethics among the staff of Shahid Mahallati Hospital in Tabriz. Conclusion: Considering the impact of resilience and flexibility components on Islamic ethics, it can be concluded that people with a high degree of resilience and flexibility demonstrate a stronger tendency and commitment to Islamic ethics.

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Am I empowered through meaningful work? The moderating role of perceived flexibility in connecting meaningful work and psychological empowerment

Cited by 31 publications

References 51 publications

How Does Sustainable Leadership Influence Sustainable Performance? Empirical Evidence From Selected ASEAN Countries

How Does Sustainable Leadership Influence Sustainable Performance? Empirical Evidence From Selected ASEAN Countries

Outcomes of Meaningful Work in the Context of Indian Blue-collar Employees: The Moderating Role of Relational Identification and Organisation-based Self-esteem

Relationship of Flexibility and Resilience with Islamic Work Ethics

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