Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal Orientation
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Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal OrientationDate
2019Publisher
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0091-0260; 1945-7421)Bibliographic citation
GARCÍA-JUAN, Beatriz; ESCRIG-TENA, Ana B.; ROCA-PUIG, Vicente. Empowerment in the Public Sector: Testing the Influence of Goal Orientation. Public Personnel Management, 2019, vol. 48, no 4, p. 443-470.Type
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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 ... [+]
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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