DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS: THE IMPACT OF SEX DISSIMILARITY IN THE EMPOWERMENT-PERFORMANCE RELATIONSHIP Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Organizations often utilize empowerment as a way to bolster performance. It is largely assumed, however, that its impact in this capacity is equivalent across organizational members. We tested this notion within a sample of 420 employees belonging to 75 teams in a Chinese organization and found that team empowerment related positively to supervisorrated inrole and selfrated extrarole performance through its effect on individual psychological empowerment. More important, employeecoworker demographic dissimilarity moderated both stages of this indirect relationship. Specifically, when employeecoworker sex dissimilarity was higher, the following relationships were attenuated: (a) team empowermentindividual empowerment, (b) individual empowermentinrole performance, and (c) individual empowermentextrarole performance. Collectively, the results illustrate that the impact of empowerment is contingent upon demographic dissimilarity.

published proceedings

  • PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY

altmetric score

  • 1.5

author list (cited authors)

  • Avery, D. R., Wang, M. o., Volpone, S. D., & Zhou, L. e.

citation count

  • 28

complete list of authors

  • Avery, Derek R||Wang, Mo||Volpone, Sabrina D||Zhou, Le

publication date

  • September 2013

publisher