Empowering leadership in hospital employees: Effects on goal orientation, job conditions, and employee proactivity
International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management
ISSN: 1741-0401
Article publication date: 25 February 2020
Issue publication date: 6 August 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This research paper aims to develop and test a conceptual model which explains whether and how empowering leadership, through employee goal orientation and job conditions, influences employee proactivity. The authors suggest two simultaneous pathways from empowering leadership to employee proactivity based on path-goal theory and social exchange theory.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected from 253 frontline employees working in Indian NABH accredited hospitals. Regression analysis was performed to analyze the data with the help of SPSS 24. Further, SPSS process macro was used to test the parallel mediation effects with the help of bootstrapping procedures.
Findings
The important findings of this study are as follows: (1) empowering leadership has direct influence on employee proactivity; (2) empowering leadership, employees' goal orientation and job conditions are important antecedents of employee proactivity; (3) goal orientation and job conditions simultaneously partially mediate the relationship between empowering leadership and employee proactivity. In particular, employees' goal orientation is a more important mediating variable than job conditions in the studied relationship.
Practical implications
Organizations may reap the benefits of employee's proactive work behavior by hiring, training, and developing empowering leaders.
Originality/value
The study adds to the existing literature by building theory in the area of employee proactivity. In doing so, this study explains the less understood relationship between empowering leadership and employee proactivity.
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Acknowledgements
Erratum. It has come to the attention of the publisher that the article, Singh, A. and Rangnekar, S. (2020), “Empowering leadership in hospital employees: Effects on goal orientation, job conditions, and employee proactivity” published in International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, contained an error in the pagination for this article in Vol. 69 No. 7. The correct pagination for this article is pp. 1497-1519. These errors were introduced in the production process and have now been corrected in the online version. The publisher sincerely apologises for these errors and for any inconvenience caused. The authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers, Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief for their valuable comments that helped to improve the manuscript.
Citation
Singh, A. and Rangnekar, S. (2020), "Empowering leadership in hospital employees: Effects on goal orientation, job conditions, and employee proactivity", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 69 No. 7, pp. 1497-1519. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPPM-03-2019-0132
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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