THE ROLE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY AND JOB SATISFACTION

Year 2015, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 251 - 276, 06.11.2015

Ceren Aydogmus , Azize Ergeneli , Selin Metin Camgoz

Abstract

This study proposes a model for the impact of the employees’ psychological empowerment on the relationship between their personality characteristics and job satisfaction. The model was tested on a sample of 221 participants working in education and IT sectors.  For the indicators of participants’ personality, Big Five Model, involving extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness to experience and neuroticsm traits, has been applied in the study. Findings reveal that psychological empowerment positively influence job satisfaction. Conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism are found to be the predictors of job satisfaction. As a result of the regression analyses, psychological empowerment is revealed as the mediating mechanism on personality and job satisfaction relationship. More specifically, followers’ psychological empowerment, including competence, impact, meaning and self-determination, partially mediated the effect of followers’ conscientiousness on job satisfaction and fully mediated neuroticism and job satisfaction relationship. The findings are discussed along with some theoretical and practical implications.

Keywords

Personality, conscientiousness, neuroticism, psychological empowerment, job satisfaction

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