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The barrier effect of conflict with superiors in the relationship between employee empowerment and organizational commitment |
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| Authors: | Onne Janssen |
| Institution: | 1. Centre for Corporate Sustainability , European University College Brussels , Belgium bertherman.schreurs@hubrussel.be;3. Department of Organization and Strategy , Maastricht University School of Business and Economics , The Netherlands;4. Bergen Bullying Research Group , University of Bergen , Norway;5. Research Group for Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology , University of Leuven , Belgium |
| Abstract: | The author proposes the idea that conflict with superiors has a barrier effect in the positive relationship between employee empowerment and organizational commitment. Superiors with higher authority rankings set and pursue organizational goals and values to which employees with lower authority rankings are expected to become committed. Conflicts with those superiors may hinder empowered employees to develop or maintain high levels of organizational commitment. A questionnaire survey among 91 secondary school teachers in The Netherlands provides empirical support for this suggestion. The moderator effect of conflict with superiors that was proposed and found in this study suggests that psychological empowerment in the workplace interacts with other employee experiences in its effects on an employee's commitment to the organization. |
| Keywords: | Teacher empowerment Organizational commitment Conflict with superiors |