Empowerment has recently been studied actively and various companies are showing increased interests in it. Few prior studies, However, have been concerned about the empowerment at the level of the government and police organization.
Under the autono...
Empowerment has recently been studied actively and various companies are showing increased interests in it. Few prior studies, However, have been concerned about the empowerment at the level of the government and police organization.
Under the autonomous police system, further independent decision-making by the improvement of members' psychological empowerment is needed in order to deal with various accidents quickly in a rapidly changing society. Regarding the preceding variables of empowerment, this study started from a supervisor who was in the closest relationship with the members of the staff. In the study model, I focused on the mediating effects of psychological empowerment in the relationship between supervisor's delegation of authority and the job attitude. The moderation effect of organizational justice and altruistic tendency were researched, and the main effect of organizational justice on job attitudes was researched as well.
For the verification of this study, survey was conducted with 350 policemen being questioned. It appears that there are mediating effects of psychological empowerment. For the moderation effects of organizational justice, distributive justice has the moderation effects but the procedural justice doesn't have one. Interactional justice doesn't have moderation effects but, rather, it has the main effect on psychological empowerment. In addition, moderation effect of an altruistic tendency was not verified in the significant scope, but it had a direct effect on the dependent variables. Several implications from this study are as follows.
Police organization feels keenly the necessity of accelerating decentralization through the autonomous police system internally, as well as the necessity of adequate rights corresponding to the responsibility regarding independent investigation authority externally. Therefore, supervisors should try to empower their subordinates more, and must have an interest in more personal characteristic.
Ensuring justice in the compensation, transparency in the decision-making procedure and trusty behavior of supervisor will have positive effect on the overall job attitude ranging from the members' satisfaction, better commitment to OCBs, which will ultimately lead to an more active mood in the organization. Now is the very time that we should make every effort in maximizing members' potential power at the manager and organization level. These members will be 'Human Resource', that is, Core Competence of organization facing future challenge.