Employee Empowerment, Knowledge Management and Decision-making Agility; Mediating Role of Extra-role Performance

Mahmoud Ali Salahat

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v11-i7/10327

Abstract

Universities in Palestine are facing many problems in terms of organizational performance and its ability to agile (1) financing problems and fund raising (2) scientific research challenges (3) managerial practices challenges (4) the level employees’ efficiency. Besides, studies on resources and capabilities that enable organization to be agile is still nascent. This study aims to examine effect of employee empowerment and knowledge management on decision-making agility. Moreover, It examines the mediating role of extra-role performance between employee empowerment and knowledge management on one hand and decision-making agility on the other hand in the Palestinian context. Using data from a survey of 289 employees of Palestinian universities, this study tests a structural equation model that relates to employee empowerment, knowledge management, extra-role performance and decision-making agility. The results of the study revealed that employee empowerment and knowledge management impact decision-making agility indirectly. On the other hand, the relationship between employee empowerment and knowledge management and decision-making agility is mediated by extra-role performance. And this is the main contribution of the present study since extra-role performance has not been deployed in this place according to literature review.

Highlights

It is obvious stated that today’s organizations need to adjust and act swiftly in current highly dynamic business environment (Yousif & Pessi, 2016)
It can be concluded that extra-role performance mediates the relationship between employee empowerment and knowledge management on one hand and decision-making agility on the other hand satisfaction at t value > 1.96
Significan1t at P*2

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Introduction

It is obvious stated that today’s organizations need to adjust and act swiftly in current highly dynamic business environment (Yousif & Pessi, 2016) They must observe indications and signals from their internal and external environments, and respond adequately and quickly (Ravichandran, 2018). Many researches have examined many organizational variables and their effects on the performance of organization (Tallon & Pinsonneault, 2011), studies on resources and capabilities that enable organization to be agile is still nascent (Ravichandran, 2018). This is the motivation to conduct this study. The main contribution of this study is embodied in using extra-role performance as a mediator among the above mentioned variables since it has not been used earlier in this place according to literature review

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