[Mediating role of empowerment in the relations to job and organizational factors, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment--empirical evidence from national university hospital employees].
J Prev Med Public Health. 2005 Aug; 38(3):315-24.JP

Abstract

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this study was to examined the mediating role of empowerment in relations to job and organizational factors, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment in hospital organizations.

METHODS

Job variety, clarity, significance, and fitness were examined as the job factors, and security, reward justice, and organizational support as the organizational factors. Data were collected from 8 national university hospitals with 1,289 data points used for the final analysis.

RESULTS

All the job factors were found to positively influence empowerment, as were all the organizational factors, with the exception of reward justice. As hypothesiz -ed, empowerment had significant effects on both job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and was the most influential variable of all those examined.

CONCLUSIONS

In the relations to job satisfaction, empowerment completely mediated job significance, security and organizational support, and partially mediated all other variables, with the exception of reward justice. In the relations to organizational commitment, empowerment completely mediated job variety and job fitness, and partially mediated all other variables, with the exception of reward justice. The theoretical and practical implications of these results have been discussed.

Authors+Show Affiliations

Yoon BS

Department of Business Administration, College of Government and Business, Yonsei University. bsyoon@dragon.yonsei.ac.kr

Lee HJ

No affiliation info available

MeSH

AdultEmpirical ResearchFemaleHospitals, UniversityHumansJob SatisfactionKoreaMaleMiddle AgedOrganizational Culture

Pub Type(s)

English Abstract

Journal Article

Language

kor

PubMed ID

16323632

Citation

Yoon, Bang-Seob, and Hae-Jong Lee. "[Mediating Role of Empowerment in the Relations to Job and Organizational Factors, and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment--empirical Evidence From National University Hospital Employees]." Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health = Yebang Uihakhoe Chi, vol. 38, no. 3, 2005, pp. 315-24.

Yoon BS, Lee HJ. [Mediating role of empowerment in the relations to job and organizational factors, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment--empirical evidence from national university hospital employees]. J Prev Med Public Health. 2005;38(3):315-24.

Yoon, B. S., & Lee, H. J. (2005). [Mediating role of empowerment in the relations to job and organizational factors, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment--empirical evidence from national university hospital employees]. Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health = Yebang Uihakhoe Chi, 38(3), 315-24.

Yoon BS, Lee HJ. [Mediating Role of Empowerment in the Relations to Job and Organizational Factors, and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment--empirical Evidence From National University Hospital Employees]. J Prev Med Public Health. 2005;38(3):315-24. PubMed PMID: 16323632.

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