Mediating Effects of Structural Empowerment between Psychological Empowerment and its Consequences: An Evidence from Pakistani Nursing Sector

Abstract

The present study aimed at investigating relationship between psychological empowerment, structural empowerment, burnout and satisfaction in Pakistani nursing sector. Additionally the study examined the relationship between psychological empowerment as an independent variable and dependent variable structural empowerment moreover it has examined the impact of structural empowerment and psychological empowerment on burn out and job satisfaction further this explored mediating role of structural empowerment between psychological empowerment, burnout and job satisfaction. The main study was conducted through systematic randomly selected sample of 350 nurses of ages between 24 and 60 belonging to public and private sector hospitals at Lahore. Survey method was used to collect data comprising of five sections including the Psychological Empowerment Scale, Conditions of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire-II, Maslach-Burnout Inventory-Emotional Exhaustion Subscale, Hackman and Oldham’s general satisfaction scale along with demographic sheet. Correlation analysis exposed the significance and strength of relationships between variables i.e. psychological empowerment and satisfaction(r=.166, p<.05) and structural empowerment and satisfaction (r=.201, p<.05) and psychological empowerment and structural empowerment (r= .39, p<.01). More over regression analysis was performed for mediation analysis. The results showed that structural empowerment fully mediated between psychological empowerment and satisfaction and partially mediated with psychological empowerment. Practical implications, study limitations were discussed and future research directions were recommended