Being Our Best: Understanding the Relationship between Empowerment and Employee Engagement among Midlevel Student Affairs Professionals

Autor/inn/en	McNaughtan, Jon; Garza, Tiberio; Eicke, Dustin; Garcia, Hugo A.; Bodine Al-Sharif, Mary Ann
Titel	Being Our Best: Understanding the Relationship between Empowerment and Employee Engagement among Midlevel Student Affairs Professionals
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 77 (2023) 4, S.774-791 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (McNaughtan, Jon) ORCID (Eicke, Dustin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/hequ.12432
Schlagwörter	Empowerment; Student Personnel Workers; Middle Management; Employee Attitudes; Job Satisfaction; Leadership + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mittlere Führungskraft; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Führung; Führungsposition
Abstract	Over the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of student service personnel, yet demand has outstripped this growth leading to turnover and low employee satisfaction. Scholars and practitioners alike have called for increased levels of empowerment of these workers, but the outcomes of this approach need further analysis. We utilize data from a survey of international centre directors in the United States and employ a partial least squares-based structural equation modelling to investigate the relationship between empowerment and employ perceptions including work satisfaction, organizational commitment, perspective of leadership and personal engagement. Specifically, trust meaning and personal consequence are strong components of empowerment in this sample. Our results indicate a positive relationship between empowerment and job satisfaction, organizational commitment and perspectives on leadership. In addition, we find that organizational commitment mediates the relationship between empowerment and personal engagement. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01