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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2021.23.4.135

The Causality of Empowerment on Job Crafting: Focus on the Moderating Variable of LMX  

Jung, Young-deuk (Department of Social Welfare Management, JeonJu Vision University)
Yu, Byung-Nam (Department of Administrative Management, Wonkwang University)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.23, no.4, 2021 , pp. 135-146 More about this Journal
Abstract
It is getting more intensified with the competition among participating companies for global market share in major industrial fields. The situation is accelerating especially within the top 5 market share, and these include electric vehicles, semiconductors, chemicals, and shipbuilding industries. The key to the advantage over the competition within a strategic group is which company leads the innovation in the field. On-the-ground innovation refers to job-based innovation. This paper aims to analyze job unit innovation in the structure of empowerment, LMX, and job crafting. Existing studies on job crafting have suggested a causal structure based on job design in the traditional sense, and there are not many scholars who study the causal structure using a job situational model. Therefore, this paper takes an approach from the perspective of the job situation. As a result of the study, LMX showed a moderating effect on the relationship between autonomy provision and job crafting. While, in the relationship between meaing-giving and cognitive crafting, there is no significant moderating effect shown on the relationship between autonomy provision and cognitive crafting. Therefore, the results of the analysis in this study suggest that the meaning of jobs and participation in decision-making should be managed in an integrated way in structural and design areas, not just qualitative factors such as empowerment and leadership.
Keywords
Empowerment; LMX(Leader Member Exchange); Job Crafting; Job Redesign;
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