Research On The Relationship Among Leader Empowering Behaviors, Employee's Organization Justice And Organizational Citizenship Behavior

In response to increasing global economic competition, many companies have undergone dramatic structural changes. To improve the overall flexibility and efficiency of their organizations, many companies have entitled their subordinates more empowerment. Now, the research of leader empowerment behavior has become one of the critical issues in the fields of organizational behavior and human resource management. Leader empowerment behavior is generally defined as a set of learning process by increasing intrinsic motivation or improving their competence, in order to get more profit for individual and organization.The purposes of this research were to investigate the contents of leader empowerment behavior in China,the affect of leader empowerment behavior to organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior, the mediate effects of leader empowerment behavior between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior, as well as their differences in demographical variables. For these purposes,427 valid questionnaires were collected from company employees. some standard research methods, such as literature review, interview, regression analysis,correlation analysis and ANOVA, exploratory factor analysis,confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were applied for date analysis.The main conclusions are as the following:First, the content of leader empowerment behavior consisted of five factors for Chinese employees,which included leading by example, showing concern/interacting with the team, informing, coaching and participative decision-making.Secondly, it was discovered that leader empowerment behavior was positively correlated with the organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior.Third, the organizational justice plays a mediating role between leader empowerment behavior and organizational citizenship behavior. Different factor of organizational justice have difference mediating type.Fourth, leader empowerment behavior shows various differences in demographic variables such as sex, age, education level, job tenure and the ownership of enterprise.Current 1imitations and future research orientation were also discussed at the end of the research.