Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research

The role of the employee empowerment strategy in organizational contests has received significant attention in management research. Studies lime investigated whether employee empowerment influencing employees' job satisfaction. Recently, literature provides evidence that companies, under differ...

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Main Authors: Abdul Aziz, Abdullah, Angham Saleem, Obeed Al-Ma'aita
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spelling my-unisza-ir.66192022-05-22T01:26:51Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6619/ Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research Abdul Aziz, Abdullah Angham Saleem, Obeed Al-Ma'aita HB Economic Theory HD28 Management. Industrial Management The role of the employee empowerment strategy in organizational contests has received significant attention in management research. Studies lime investigated whether employee empowerment influencing employees' job satisfaction. Recently, literature provides evidence that companies, under different reasons, focused on the human capital importance in which it directed the organizations and companies paradigms to be changed about the management of people. The main objective of this study is to review the literature that investigated the relationship between employee empowerment and job satisfaction. The literature to date seems to offer inconsistent results, even though studies mostly show significant relationship. This conclusion suggests that the effectiveness of employee empowerment must be improved and future studies should further investigate the role of employee empowerment on mitigating job satisfaction with paying attention to some factors such as the moderating role in this relation. Finally, this review of the literature is hoped to help managers, owners, and researchers to evaluate the employee empowerment role and hence enhancing its monitoring on job satisfaction of employees. 2019-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6619/1/FH02-FPP-19-35184.pdf Abdul Aziz, Abdullah and Angham Saleem, Obeed Al-Ma'aita (2019) Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research. Journal of Qualitative Social Sciences 2019, 1 (2). pp. 1-9. ISSN 2637-0808
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Abdul Aziz, Abdullah
Angham Saleem, Obeed Al-Ma'aita
Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
description The role of the employee empowerment strategy in organizational contests has received significant attention in management research. Studies lime investigated whether employee empowerment influencing employees' job satisfaction. Recently, literature provides evidence that companies, under different reasons, focused on the human capital importance in which it directed the organizations and companies paradigms to be changed about the management of people. The main objective of this study is to review the literature that investigated the relationship between employee empowerment and job satisfaction. The literature to date seems to offer inconsistent results, even though studies mostly show significant relationship. This conclusion suggests that the effectiveness of employee empowerment must be improved and future studies should further investigate the role of employee empowerment on mitigating job satisfaction with paying attention to some factors such as the moderating role in this relation. Finally, this review of the literature is hoped to help managers, owners, and researchers to evaluate the employee empowerment role and hence enhancing its monitoring on job satisfaction of employees.
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author Abdul Aziz, Abdullah
Angham Saleem, Obeed Al-Ma'aita
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title Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
title_short Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
title_full Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
title_fullStr Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
title_full_unstemmed Employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: A review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
title_sort employee empowerment characteristics and job satisfaction: a review of existing literature and the new avenue of research
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