ترجمه مقاله نقش ضروری ارتباطات 6G با چشم انداز صنعت 4.0
- مبلغ: ۸۶,۰۰۰ تومان
ترجمه مقاله پایداری توسعه شهری، تعدیل ساختار صنعتی و کارایی کاربری زمین
- مبلغ: ۹۱,۰۰۰ تومان
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of empowering leadership at the team level on employees’ subjective well-being (SWB) and work performance through perceived social support. Based on social exchange theory (Blau, 1964), the study identifies the mediating effects of perceived social support in the relationship between empowering leadership and both employees’ well-being and work performance.
Design/methodology/approach – The study utilized a survey of 1,225 employees working for an organization in South Korea and archival data of the organization. It employed hierarchical linear modeling analyses and the CWC(M) procedure for the tests of multilevel mediation.
Findings – It was observed that perceived organizational support (POS) and co-worker support (PCS) mediated the relationship between empowering leadership and SWB, but not the relationship between empowering leadership and performance. There was a significant direct effect of empowering leadership on both POS and PCS, which subsequently led to improved work performance.
Originality/value – Taking a multilevel approach to leadership and relying on both self-reported and organizational archival data, this study contributes to the literature on leadership and well-being by examining the relationships between empowering leadership toward a team and team members’ well-being and performance, and by revealing the crucial mechanisms that underlie them. The study helps to elucidate the impact of empowering leadership on employee SWB, which has largely been neglected in prior management research.
Introduction
To date, employees’ well-being in the workplace has received considerable attention from scholars. Since researchers observed that places where people experience higher well-being have lowered the probability that they will develop various diseases, such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer, and lowered the mortality of those diseases (Lawless and Lucas, 2011), an interest in the quality of their lives is growing (Diener and Tay, 2015). In accordance with this trend, more studies that examine various work-related variables associated with employee well-being are being conducted in the field of management (e.g. Conway et al., 2015; Li et al., 2016; Panaccio and Vandenberghe, 2009).
Discussion
This study has shown how employees’ perceptions of leadership and social support in the workplace flow to their SWB and work performance by drawing from social exchange theory (Blau, 1964). First, empowering leadership at the team level had direct effects on both POS and PCS at the individual level. Second, individuals with high levels of POS experienced both SWB and improved work performance. POS had a mediating effect on only the relationship between empowering leadership and SWB. Finally, individuals who PCS were more likely to experience SWB and perform well. Moreover, PCS had an indirect effect linking empowering leadership and SWB. These results align with the extant research findings, implying that social support is critical to predicting employees’ SWB and work performance (Parker et al., 2013; Ronen et al., 2016). However, although the hypothesized model predicted that both POS and PCS would mediate the relationships between empowering leadership at the team level and work performance, that hypothesis was not supported. A conceivable reason for this unexpected finding is that the unique characteristics of the sample organization may have had some influence.