Effect of empowering leadership on the turnover intention of industrial workers

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chenhui Ouyang ◽  
Yongyue Zhu ◽  
Minyu Guo
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Moderation Model

We used empowerment theory and job design theory to build a mediated moderation model to examine the relationship between empowering leadership and the turnover intention of industrial workers. Participants were 272 industrial workers in Chinese manufacturing enterprises. Results show that empowering leadership significantly reduced participants' turnover intention and that job crafting exerted a partial mediating effect on the negative correlation between empowering leadership and turnover intention. Participants' proactive personality positively moderated the effect of empowering leadership on their turnover intention, and part of the moderating effect was transmitted via job crafting. Our results have theoretical implications for related research and practical implications for human resource management practices in the manufacturing industry.

scholarly journals Human Resource Management Practices and Employee’s Turnover Intention in the Manufacturing Industry in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Ong Choon Hee ◽  
Chew Mei Lien ◽  
Sim Jun Liang ◽  
Ainatul Shahirah Mohamed Ali ◽  
Nazhatul Shima Abd Manap ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices ◽  
Recruitment And Selection ◽  
Main Factor

The main objective of this study is to examine the influence of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices (compensation and benefits, recruitment and selection and work-life policies) on employee's turnover intention. A survey questionnaire was sent and collected from 60 respondents who worked in the Manufacturing Industry in Malaysia. The results showed that the main factor that influences turnover intention of the employees was compensation and benefits. Hence, manufacturing firms ought to put extra efforts in this aspect in order to retain talents and minimize turnover rate of its workforce. Recruitment and selection and work-life policies were found to be not significant in predicting employee’s turnover intention.

Empowering leadership and knowledge management: the mediating role of followers' technology use

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafer Türkmendağ ◽  
Muharrem Tuna
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Hotel Management ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Knowledge Management Practices

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of empowering leadership in intraorganizational knowledge management practices and to reveal how followers' acceptance and use of the hotel management system affect this role.Design/methodology/approachA serial multiple mediation model was evaluated and tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The database was created from the results of a structured questionnaire obtained from 401 employees working in hotels in Turkey.FindingsThe findings of the study reveal that empowering leadership has a significant effect on followers' knowledge creation, sharing and application. It was also found that the acceptance and use of the hotel management system were partially complementary to the impact of empowering leadership on followers' knowledge management practices.Practical implicationsThis paper gives an insight into the empowering leader's role in gathering useful knowledge, which is self-managed within the organization, by encouraging, motivating, providing autonomous and supportive conditions and making it beneficial and easier for their followers to adapt to the organization's technologies.Originality/valueThe efficient management of knowledge in organizations through the use of technology is possible by distributing power to subordinates through expanding the theory of knowledge management, leadership and the acceptance and use of technology. Furthermore, this study contributes to the literature by establishing the theoretical foundation of the relationship between empowering leadership and knowledge management practices based on Dalkir's knowledge management model and by discussing the mediating effect of the core variables of the UTAUT model.

The leadership of the school principal

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanket Sunand Dash ◽  
Neharika Vohra
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
School Context ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Alienation ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The mechanisms through which superiors’ leadership styles and subordinates’ internal cognitions affect subordinates’ actual behaviour and attitudes are relatively unexplored in most contexts. This paper aims to bridge the gap by exploring the mediating effect of teachers’ cognitions (psychological empowerment) in the relationship between principals’ leadership style (empowering leadership) and teachers’ behaviour (job crafting) and attitudes (work alienation and organizational commitment). Design/methodology/approach Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used on data obtained from 624 teachers of primary classes in Indian private schools. Findings Psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and job crafting and job crafting partially mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and work alienation and affective commitment. Work alienation partially mediates the relationship between job crafting and affective commitment. Empowering leadership has a direct effect on job crafting. Research limitations/implications Due to the lack of longitudinal data, causality cannot be established. Also, there are concerns about the factor structure of scales. Practical implications Principals demonstrating empowering leadership can help teachers become more proactive and feel more empowered, less alienated and more committed. More proactive teachers and less alienated teachers are more likely to engage in self-initiated professional development and collaboration, thereby improving the teaching-learning process. Though this study was done in the school context, it is believed that the findings can plausibly apply to managers/leaders who work with complex, ambiguous work and knowledge workers. Originality/value First, the study extends the research on job crafting by studying the relationship between leadership style (empowering leadership) and job crafting. Second, the identification of the mechanisms through which leaders (principals) can help subordinates (teachers) find meaning in work (reduction in alienation) and develop commitment is an original contribution.

Workplace bullying, human resource management practices, and turnover intention: the mediating effect of work engagement: evidence of Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Dung Gadi ◽  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices ◽  
Service Sectors

PurposeDespite the concentrated study on turnover intention (TI), slightly is known on the subject in what manner work engagement intervenes the link connecting workplace bullying (WPB) and TI is varied across sectors, and how WPB and TI implications are viewed among academicians of public universities in Nigeria. The aim of this article is to explore in what way the association between WPB and TI is mediated by work engagement (WE) in public universities in Nigeria.Design/methodology/approachThe paper applied judgmental sampling to gather 400 data from academic staff that must have worked for a minimum of six months in the current university. The present study used SmartPLS software 3.2.9 for the estimation of the hypothesis.FindingsThe result confirmed that work engagement intervenes the outcome of WPB and HRM on TI.Research limitations/implicationsThe current study presents validation for the mediating impact of work engagement on the relationships connecting WPB and HRM on TI in Nigeria universities. Outcomes from findings encompassing all employees in the universities and other service sectors would offer further significant and practical implications for administrators.Originality/valueThe research furthers our knowledge of the intervening effect of work engagement in the link among WPB and TI across academicians in public universities in Nigeria. To reduce turnover intention among academic staff, administrators must have a good insight into how WE mediates the correlation linking WPB and TI.

scholarly journals Craft Your Job and Get Engaged: Sustainable Change-Oriented Behavior at Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soo Baik ◽  
Hae-Deok Song ◽  
Ah Hong
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Modeling Analysis ◽  
Proactive Behaviors ◽  
Job Challenges ◽  
The Relationship

Employees’ change-oriented behavior is known to be critical in promoting organizational changes for a sustainable organization. However, few studies have explored how this behavior can be potentially promoted by job-crafting and work engagement. This study examined the relationship between job-crafting and change-oriented behaviors (adaptive and proactive behaviors), as well as the mediating effect of work engagement. Hypotheses were tested with a structural equation modeling analysis. A total of 459 employees in the Korean automobile manufacturing industry participated in the study. The results show that job-crafting had a positive effect on adaptive behaviors and proactive behaviors. Moreover, seeking job resources and seeking job challenges promoted change-oriented behaviors through work engagement. Based on these results, practical implications are suggested for the development of a sustainable organization.

Analysis of Organizational Socialization of the Front-Line Employee in Manufacturing Industry

2011 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 554-559
Author(s):  
Yu Chen Hu
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Organizational Socialization ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Socialization Theory ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

The thesis, by analyzing the front-line employees of manufacturing enterprises, tends to explore the influence of organizational socialization on employee’s turnover intention and job performance, and to find out the relationship between organizational socialization levels and their turnover intention and performance by exemplifying. We hope it not only can enrich the organizational socialization theory in China, but also provide reliable human resource management practices to labor-intensive manufacturing enterprises.

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