The Impact of the Active Empowerment and Passive Empowerment on Social Loafing:Personality and Job Characteristics as Moderators

碩士 === 國防大學管理學院 === 資源管理及決策研究所 === 99 === In the past, researches on empowerment are mostly in the viewpoint of managers to analyze how the empowerment behavior pattern affects the organizations or staff operation, instead of the viewpoint of workers or subordinates to analyze how the boss feels ab...

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Main Authors: Lu,Peiyi, 呂珮怡
Other Authors: Liu,Peileen
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15305291054440858770
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Summary:碩士 === 國防大學管理學院 === 資源管理及決策研究所 === 99 === In the past, researches on empowerment are mostly in the viewpoint of managers to analyze how the empowerment behavior pattern affects the organizations or staff operation, instead of the viewpoint of workers or subordinates to analyze how the boss feels about Empowerment. This research would be in the viewpoint of workers to see how the boss feels about empowerment, and further, it would offer “Active Empowerment” and “Passive Empowerment” to fill up this important and unfocused research subject. Besides, social loafing exists commonly in the management. It is worth paying attention that would empowerment have a substantive influence on employee’ social loafing on earth. It is more worth paying attention that would employee’different viewpoint towards empowerment have different influence on social loafing. Furthermore, this research is also of the opinion that workers’personality and job characteristics play a moderating roles. This research selected Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST) as real diagnosis sample, and collected data with responses. It got back 307 effective responses(96%). Results indicate that empowerment has an decreasing effect on social loafing indeed. Especially, it is more obvious that active empowerment has an negative influence on social loafing. Besides, worker’s personality strongly moderates the relationship between active empowerment and social loafing; the importance of skill weakly moderates the relationship between active empowerment and social loafing; the feedback of job strongly moderates the relationship between passive empowerment and social loafing.