The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia

State-Owned Enterprises play a central role in the national economy. As they have moved towards a more global and competitive environment, in order to be successful in sustaining the competitive advantages in providing service to customer, employees play an important role in contributing to the succ...

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The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia
description State-Owned Enterprises play a central role in the national economy. As they have moved towards a more global and competitive environment, in order to be successful in sustaining the competitive advantages in providing service to customer, employees play an important role in contributing to the success of organization. Therefore, organization should be able to increase motivation of its employees. Empowerment brings benefits to both employees and organizations. Employees offer advantages to contemporary organizations wanting to gain competitive advantage through adaptability, rapid response and innovation. However, this creates new challenges to organization to redesign the work and to consider the fairness determinants in order to successfully empowered employees. Thus,the purpose of this research is to examine the influence ofjob characteristics and perceived fairness toward psychological empowerment among employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), Indonesia. This research is conducted based on quantitative method and questionnaire was established as the data collection tool based on several instruments adopted from previous research. Simple and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the correlation as well as the influence of job characteristics and perceived fairness as independent variables toward psychological empowerment as dependent variable. This research found considerable evidence about the influence of job characteristics and perceived fairness toward psychological empowerment. Furthermore, this research has a high expectation on the study of empowering employees in Indonesia perspective to provide more knowledge and suggestions contribute to the Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises sector development as a foundation to be succeeded in facing more competitive business environment.
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title The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia
title_short The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia
title_full The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia
title_fullStr The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia
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spelling my-uum-etd.32462016-04-19T07:35:41Z The Influence of Job Characteristics and Perceived Fairness Toward Psychological Empowerment Among Employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Indonesia 2012-06 Ika, Desvitasari Saputra, Ruswiati Surya Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment State-Owned Enterprises play a central role in the national economy. As they have moved towards a more global and competitive environment, in order to be successful in sustaining the competitive advantages in providing service to customer, employees play an important role in contributing to the success of organization. Therefore, organization should be able to increase motivation of its employees. Empowerment brings benefits to both employees and organizations. Employees offer advantages to contemporary organizations wanting to gain competitive advantage through adaptability, rapid response and innovation. However, this creates new challenges to organization to redesign the work and to consider the fairness determinants in order to successfully empowered employees. Thus,the purpose of this research is to examine the influence ofjob characteristics and perceived fairness toward psychological empowerment among employees in PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), Indonesia. This research is conducted based on quantitative method and questionnaire was established as the data collection tool based on several instruments adopted from previous research. Simple and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the correlation as well as the influence of job characteristics and perceived fairness as independent variables toward psychological empowerment as dependent variable. This research found considerable evidence about the influence of job characteristics and perceived fairness toward psychological empowerment. Furthermore, this research has a high expectation on the study of empowering employees in Indonesia perspective to provide more knowledge and suggestions contribute to the Indonesian State-Owned Enterprises sector development as a foundation to be succeeded in facing more competitive business environment. 2012-06 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/3246/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/3246/1/IKA_DESVITASARI.pdf text eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/3246/3/IKA_DESVITASARI.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Ashmos,D.P., & Duchon,D. (2000). Spirituality at work. A conceptualization and measure. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9, 134-145. Astami,E.W., Tower,G., Rusmin,R., & Nielson,J. (2010). The effect of privatisation on performance of state-owned-enterprises in Indonesia. Asian Review of Accounting, 18, 5-19. 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