The inuence of the Workplace Empowerment on Work Engagement: An examination of the mediator role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between structural empowerment and engagement

Purpose: Structural empowerment focuses on a set of organizational policies and practices initiated by management with the purpose of addressing conditions that produce powerlessness situations and cascading decision-making down the organization hierarchy (Eylon, & Bamberger, 2000). Our aim is to analyze the influence of structural empowerment on both psychological empowerment and work engagement (as defined by Schaufeli, Salanova, González-Román, & Bakker, 2002), and to test the mediator role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between structural empowerment and engagement. Design/Methodology: A cross-sectional research design was used, collecting the data among 155 wo…