Overview
- Discusses how psychological empowerment can increase job satisfaction
- Gives practical advice for applying empowerment strategies in the workplace
- Analyses the relationship between psychological empowerment and job related stress
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Psychological Empowerment
- job satisfaction
- Private sector bank employee wellbeing
- Public sector banks employee wellbeing
- new generation banks
- bank employees
- banking organizations
- management techniques
- job related stress
- Management Studies
- Self-determination Dimension
- Competence Dimension
- managing organisational effectiveness
- employee wellbeing
About this book
This book explores how psychological empowerment can influence and enhance job satisfaction. The authors argue that in today’s working climate the wellbeing and involvement of employees is of utmost importance to any company’s overall success and that management techniques like empowerment are the most effective means of achieving this goal.
Based on an empirical study examining job satisfaction amongst employees of several private sector, public sector and new generation banks in Kerala, India as well as extensive literature review, this book discusses the role psychological empowerment plays in enhancing job satisfaction both locally and internationally. It goes on to analyze four dimensions of psychological empowerment and the role of job satisfaction in the relationship between psychological empowerment and job related stress. This book will be of great interest to scholars in management and psychology and is essential reading for industrialists and managers wantingto apply empowerment strategies in their own workplace.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Elizabeth George is Head of the Department of Management Studies, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering & Technology, Kalady, India. She has twenty years of teaching and administrative experience and authored more than thirty five research papers in refereed national and international journals and books.
Zakkariya K.A. is Professor in Management at Cochin University of Science and Technology, India with 20 years of teaching and research experience. He has occupied various positions in statutory bodies of different universities and published over fifty papers in reputed journals and books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychological Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in the Banking Sector
Authors: Elizabeth George, Zakkariya K.A.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94259-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94258-2Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94259-9Published: 30 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 184
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, Self and Identity, Economic Psychology, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Careers in Business and Mangagement