Structural empowerment, personal initiative, and job satisfaction in service employees

INTRODUCTION: This study explores how empowering human resource management (HRM) practices based on structural empowerment (access to opportunities, resources, support, and information) affect both personal initiative and job satisfaction of service employees through individual-level factors (psychological empowerment). METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey study and collected 439 valid responses from service employees in Spain. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) with confidence intervals based on 10,000 resamples (i.e., bootstrapping technique). RESULTS: Our results showed that psychological empowerment partially mediated the relationship between structural empowerment and job satisfaction. It also fully mediated the relationship between structural empowerment and personal initiative at work. CONCLUSION: These findings emphasize the importance of HRM practices that can empower employees as key determinants of job satisfaction and personal initiative at service companies. Furthermore, a structural empowerment approach is a valid theoretical framework for studying and understanding employees' affective evaluations of work and, more specifically, their personal initiative

Bootstrapping (finance) · Business · Empowerment · Human resource management · Human resources · Job satisfaction · Knowledge management · Management · Political science · Service (business) · Structural equation modeling · Applied Psychology · Customer Service Quality and Loyalty · Emotional Labor in Professions · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Marketing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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