Effects of psychological empowerment on the performance of R&D employees: Moderating effects of LOC

Author

Di, Y. ; Li, Y.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Strategy, Alcartel Lucent Technol., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

1781

Lastpage

1785

Abstract

To test the relationship between psychological empowerment and R&D employees´ work performance (including task performance, contextual performance and innovation performance), and the moderating effect of Locus of Control, we collected paired data of 189 R&D employees and their supervisors from a large foreign-funded R&D institution in China. The results show that psychological empowerment has significant positive influence on R&D employees´ task performance, contextual performance and innovation performance. In case of `internals,´ the impact of psychological empowerment on contextual and innovation performance is more significant than for `externals.´ The article concludes with a discussion of the theoretical values of this study, and its implications for managements in practice.

Keywords

innovation management; personnel; psychology; R&D employees; contextual performance; innovation performance; locus of control; psychological empowerment; task performance; work performance; Book reviews; Humans; Lead; Organizations; Psychology; Standards organizations; Technological innovation; Locus of Control; Psychological Empowerment; R&D employees;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Macao

ISSN

2157-3611

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8501-7

Electronic_ISBN

2157-3611

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674562

Filename

5674562