Abstract
Employees’ psychological well-being is an important factor affecting organizational performance. Thus, through empirical study, the present article investigates the influence of employees’ job autonomy on their psychological well-being. Specifically, personal initiative will mediate this relationship. To examine a series of hypotheses we developed, online survey was used to collect data. Finally, 380 respondents were accepted. Empirical data showed that employees’ job autonomy is positively related to psychological well-being. Namely, the psychological well-being of employees will gain dramatic improvement when they possess high job autonomy. In addition, through the way of path analysis, we revealed that personal initiative plays a role of intermediary mechanism in the relationship between job autonomy and psychological well-being. In last part, we discussed the contribution, limitations, and the directions of future research.
Highlights
Most of the fatigue we feel is caused by psychological factors, which caused by purely physical factors is very rare, said by Carnegie (2010), a famous American psychologist and human relations scholar [1], which reveals the importance of psychological experience
We found that as we propose before, personal initiative plays a intermediary role in effecting the relationship of job autonomy and psychological well-being
Our present study extend the research on psychological well-being and finds that job autonomy plays a positive role in the process of effecting psychological well-being [9]
Summary
Most of the fatigue we feel is caused by psychological factors, which caused by purely physical factors is very rare, said by Carnegie (2010), a famous American psychologist and human relations scholar [1], which reveals the importance of psychological experience. A wealth of prior research has demonstrated that employees’ psychological well-being will bring numerous desirable outcomes, and personal initiative is one of them [2] [3]. Zhao and deeply concerned by scholars [4] [5]. We infer that job autonomy could serve as a determinant of employees’ psychological well-being
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