title: Engaged, committed and helpful employees: the role of psychological empowerment.
abstract: Although previous research has been focused on the relationship among personality, empowerment, and outcomes, little is known about the incremental effect of empowerment on positive work outcomes. This article aims at exploring the relation between personality factors (i.e., extraversion and conscientiousness) and positive work outcomes (i.e., work engagement, affective organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behavior), and at determining the incremental effect of psychological empowerment on these outcomes. A convenience sample from three organizations has been used for data collection (N = 258; 52% women, mean age 38.55 years, SD = 10.21). Hierarchical multiple regressions indicate that personality and psychological empowerment explain a significant amount of the variance in the positive organizational outcomes, and that psychological empowerment has a significant incremental value over demographics and personality for the studied outcomes.
authors.affiliation: a West University of Timişoara.
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Macsinga
authors.forename: Coralia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sulea
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sârbescu
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fischmann
authors.forename: Cătălina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dumitru
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010551:Personality; D011209:Power, Psychological
keywords: empowerment; organizational citizenship behavior; organizational commitment; personality; work engagement