Title :
The mediating effects of psychological empowerment on leadership style and employee satisfaction in hospitals
Author :
Xu Jia-ni ; Yu De-hua ; Li Jian-gang
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
This research was aimed at examining psychological empowerment in mediating the relation between transformational leadership and employee satisfaction. With the method of questionnaire, 1252 medical staffs in Shanghai were investigated and data analysis tools were SPSS 16.0 and AMOS 17.0. The results indicated that, to some extent, psychological empowerment mediated the relation between transformational leadership and employee satisfaction. Meaning, competence and impact mediated the relation between visionary motivation and employee satisfaction, while only meaning between moral modeling and employee satisfaction.
Keywords :
data analysis; hospitals; personnel; psychology; AMOS 17.0; SPSS 16.0; Shanghai; data analysis tools; employee satisfaction; hospitals; mediating effects; moral modeling; psychological empowerment; transformational leadership style; visionary motivation; Correlation; Data models; Equations; Hospitals; Lead; Mathematical model; Psychology; employee satisfaction; leadership style; medical staffs; psychological empowerment;
Conference_Titel :
Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dallas, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3015-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSE.2012.6414330
