¿Es útil la gestión de los recursos humanos en los ayuntamientos?

We extend the 'black box' picture of public management and the 'balanced view' of HRM literature to explore, in the public context, the impact of structural empowerment on organisational performance and the mediating role of three employee outcomes: job satisfaction and affective commitment as attitudinal variables related to eudaimonic well-being, and job anxiety as an employee health variable related to hedonic well-being. Using multilevel methodology on a sample of 103 local authorities, results show that structural empowerment is positively associated with organisational performance, both directly and indirectly, via employee health. This evidence supports the mutual gains perspective, but not as intensely as expected (empowerment does not affect attitudinal variables) and differently to the traditional perspective, since empowerment contributes to reduce job anxiety in Spanish local governments.

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Structural empowerment and organisational performance: the mediating role of employees’ well-being in Spanish local governments

García-Juan

Tena

Roca‐Puig

2020

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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The empowerment–organizational performance link in local governments

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of how to raise organizational performance in public sector organizations through human resource management. Specifically, this paper aims to investigate the link between structural empowerment and organizational performance, and the mediating role of the psychological empowerment of employees. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply multilevel structural equation modeling using a sample of 103 local governments’ managers and 461 employees from Spain. Findings The results show that structural empowerment is positively associated with organizational performance. Surprisingly, this relationship is not mediated by psychological empowerment, although it is a powerful antecedent of organizational performance. Originality/value In the context of new public management, structural empowerment emerges as a useful component of human resource management for improving organizational performance in public sector organizations. Nevertheless, scant research has combined structural empowerment practices and employees’ feelings of empowerment, which would create a global view to shed light on their role to increase organizational performance. Therefore, this paper examines the mediating function of psychological empowerment (individual level) in the structural empowerment–organizational performance link (organizational level) in the context of public sector organizations.

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Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal Orientation

García-Juan

Tena

Roca‐Puig

2018

Public Personnel Management

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Empowerment has emerged as an important new issue in the public sector organization setting in the wake of mainstream new public management (NPM). Nevertheless, few studies in this frame have combined structural (managerial) and psychological (individual) approaches in an integrative study of empowerment. There is also a need to examine the moderating variables involved in this relationship, as well as to extend research on work motivation in public management. This study explores the effect of structural empowerment on psychological empowerment, and it also draws on goal orientation (GO) theory to examine the moderating role of employees’ GO in this link. The model is tested on a sample of 521 Spanish local authority employees. The results do not confirm the direct link between structural and psychological empowerment, but show that learning GO has considerable moderating power in this relationship, and its interaction with structural empowerment affects employees’ psychological empowerment levels.

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¿Es útil la gestión de los recursos humanos en los ayuntamientos?

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Structural empowerment and organisational performance: the mediating role of employees’ well-being in Spanish local governments

Structural empowerment and organisational performance: the mediating role of employees’ well-being in Spanish local governments

The empowerment–organizational performance link in local governments

Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal Orientation

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