Perceived organizational support and employees' empowerment: A multi-sample study
(2017) 18th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) — Location: Dublin, Ireland (17.May.2017)
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Bouchat, Pierre 
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- Content: Purpose This research aims to examine whether employees’ psychological empowerment (defined as a motivational construct manifested in four cognitions: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact) might act as a mediator in the positive relationship between perceived organizational support (i.e., POS; employees’ beliefs concerning the extent to which the organization values their contributions and cares about their well-being; Eisenberger et al., 1986) and employees’ psychological well-being. Several scholars (e.g., Baran et al., 2012; Kurtessis et al., 2015) have indeed recently stated that there is a clear need for more research on the underlying processes through which POS leads to a better well-being. Design/Methodology Employees from three different companies (N =237, N =334, and N= 182) were invited to respond to an online questionnaire composed of validated and well-known scales (cross-sectional design). Results Results of SEM and bootstrap analyses indicated that employees’ psychological empowerment partially mediates the positive relationship between POS and employee’s psychological well-being across the three samples. Limitations Future research with repeated measures is strongly needed in order to assess the direction of causality among our variables of interest. Research/Practical Implications Our findings stress the importance for managers to foster POS in order to have empowered and finally healthy employees. Originality/Value This study contributes to the development of organizational support theory (Eisenberger et al., 1986) by responding to the call of scholars (e.g., Kurtessis et al., 2015) to explore new underlying mechanisms of the relationship between POS and employees’ well-being.
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Caesens, G., Stinglhamber, F., Taskin, L., Desmarets, M., & Bouchat, P. (2017). Perceived organizational support and employees’ empowerment: A multi-sample study. 18th congress of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP), Dublin, Ireland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123032