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

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1215

Lastpage

1219

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management Science and Engineering (ICMSE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

ISSN

2155-1847

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3015-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSE.2012.6414330

Filename

6414330