TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of participative leadership behavior on psychological empowerment and organizational commitment in Chinese state-owned enterprises
T2 - The moderating role of organizational tenure
AU - Huang, Xu
AU - Shi, Kan
AU - Zhang, Zhijie
AU - Cheung, Yat Lee
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgement This work has been supported by the Research Grants Councils of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China, (Project No: B-Q785) to the first author.
PY - 2006/9
Y1 - 2006/9
N2 - We investigated whether participative leadership behavior can produce psychological empowerment, which in turn, leads to organizational commitment for employees of Chinese state-owned enterprises. Based on the data collected from 173 employees in two state-owned enterprises, we found that participative leadership behavior was associated with organizational commitment, but not with all four dimensions of psychological empowerment, namely, meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Our findings also showed that while participative leadership behavior tended to make short-tenure employees feel competent and thus, more committed to an organization, such leadership behavior did not have a significant impact on competence as well as organizational commitment for long-tenure employees.
AB - We investigated whether participative leadership behavior can produce psychological empowerment, which in turn, leads to organizational commitment for employees of Chinese state-owned enterprises. Based on the data collected from 173 employees in two state-owned enterprises, we found that participative leadership behavior was associated with organizational commitment, but not with all four dimensions of psychological empowerment, namely, meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Our findings also showed that while participative leadership behavior tended to make short-tenure employees feel competent and thus, more committed to an organization, such leadership behavior did not have a significant impact on competence as well as organizational commitment for long-tenure employees.
KW - Empowerment
KW - Organizational commitment
KW - Participative leadership
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U2 - 10.1007/s10490-006-9006-3
DO - 10.1007/s10490-006-9006-3
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:33749016527
SN - 0217-4561
VL - 23
SP - 345
EP - 367
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Management
IS - 3
ER -