Journal article
A meta-analysis of empowerment and voice as transmitters of high-performance managerial practices to job performance
Journal of organizational behavior, Vol.39(10), pp.1296-1313
12/01/2018
DOI: 10.1002/job.2295
Abstract
Empowerment offers the predominant explanation for why employee perceptions of high-performance managerial practices are positively associated with employee job performance. Drawing on social cognitive theory, we propose that high-performance managerial practices also influence performance because these practices encourage employees to engage in voice. Additionally, we suggest that empowerment and voice together provide a more complete explanation for why high-performance managerial practices and job performance are linked. In essence, we argue that empowerment transmits the effects of high-performance managerial practices to job performance because it engenders voice. Using meta-analysis of primary research consisting of 151 independent samples involving 53,200 employees, we find that not only do empowerment and voice independently transmit the effects of high-performance managerial practices to job performance, but they sequentially mediate this relationship as well. Further, we distinguish among skill-enhancing, motivation-enhancing, and opportunity-enhancing high-performance managerial practices to identify when empowerment and voice are more or less effective in explaining associations with job performance. Although empowerment and voice transmit effects of all 3 types of high-performance managerial practices to employee performance, these mechanisms appear to provide the best explanation for the effects of opportunity-enhancing practices, and the primary reason why is because employees respond to opportunity-enhancing practices with voice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A meta-analysis of empowerment and voice as transmitters of high-performance managerial practices to job performance
- Creators
- Melissa Chamberlin - Iowa State UniversityDaniel W. Newton - Arizona State UniversityJeffery A. LePine - Arizona State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of organizational behavior, Vol.39(10), pp.1296-1313
- Publisher
- Wiley
- DOI
- 10.1002/job.2295
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
- eISSN
- 1099-1379
- Number of pages
- 18
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/2018
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984380425202771
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