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How self leadership enhances normative commitment and work performance by engaging people at work?
Aneeq Inam1, Jo Ann Ho1, Adnan Ahmed Sheikh2,3
1School of Business and Economics at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia.
Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
|April 19, 2021
Summary
Empowering employees through self-leadership significantly boosts work engagement, organizational commitment, and performance. Work engagement acts as a key mediator, enhancing these positive outcomes in the workplace.
Area of Science:
- Organizational Behavior
- Management Science
- Social Psychology
Background:
- Effective management often emphasizes leadership and its link to social sustainability.
- Integrating employee self-leadership is a growing strategy for organizational empowerment.
- Understanding the impact of self-leadership on commitment and performance is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To empirically investigate the impact of self-leadership on normative commitment and work performance.
- To examine the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between self-leadership, normative commitment, and work performance.
- To provide theoretical insights using social cognitive theory and intrinsic motivation theory.
Main Methods:
- Data collected from 318 employees in the Pakistani telecom sector.
- Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using AMOS software for data analysis.
- Theoretical framework based on social cognitive theory and intrinsic motivation theory.
Main Results:
- Self-leadership significantly elevates employee work engagement, organizational commitment, and work performance.
- Work engagement mediates the relationship between self-leadership and normative commitment.
- Work engagement also mediates the relationship between self-leadership and work performance.
Conclusions:
- Self-leadership is a vital factor in enhancing employee engagement and commitment.
- The findings offer practical and theoretical contributions to the literature on leadership and organizational behavior.
- Interventions promoting self-leadership can improve organizational outcomes.
Keywords:
Intrinsic motivation theoryNormative commitmentSelf leadershipSocial cognitive theoryWork engagementWork performanceMore Related Videos
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