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Organizational structure and employees' innovative behavior: The mediating role of empowerment

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: We examined the mediating role of empowerment in the associations among centralization, formalization, and employee innovative behavior in organizations. Respondents were 750 highly skilled full-time employees of manufacturing organizations in the Republic of Korea who completed a self-administered survey. Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate the hypotheses of our study. The findings demonstrated that centralization and formalization were negatively related with empowerment. Empowerment was positively associated with employee innovative behavior, and played a mediating role among centralization, formalization, and innovative behavior. We recommend that managers of organizations establish self-managed teams that are able to make decisions autonomously, and that managers use a less formalized organizational structure to enhance employee empowerment.

Source: Social Behavior and Personality An International Journal

DOI: 10.2224/sbp.6433

Authors: Jaehoon Rhee, Seo Dae Seog, Faridun Bozorov, Alisher Tohirovich Dedahanov

Institution: Yeungnam University

Language: English

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2762798342

FWCI: 3.911

Cites: 17

Cited by: 51

Related to: 10