Effect of empowering leadership on the turnover intention of industrial workers

Keywords:
industrial workers, empowering leadership, turnover intention, job crafting, proactive personality
Abstract

We used empowerment theory and job design theory to build a mediated moderation model to examine the relationship between empowering leadership and the turnover intention of industrial workers. Participants were 272 industrial workers in Chinese manufacturing enterprises. Results show that empowering leadership significantly reduced participants’ turnover intention and that job crafting exerted a partial mediating effect on the negative correlation between empowering leadership and turnover intention. Participants’ proactive personality positively moderated the effect of empowering leadership on their turnover intention, and part of the moderating effect was transmitted via job crafting. Our results have theoretical implications for related research and practical implications for human resource management practices in the manufacturing industry.

Author Biographies
  1. Chenhui Ouyang, Jiangsu University
    School of Management
  2. Yongyue Zhu, Jiangsu University
    School of Management
  3. Minyu Guo, Jiangsu University
    School of Management
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Published
2020-03-27
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