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Impact of empowering leadership behavior on communication satisfaction and its mechanism

  • School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Staffs' communication satisfaction has been deeply recognized, leadership behavior impacts organizational internal staffs' communication satisfaction. This study discusses how the empowering leadership behavior impacts the communication satisfaction and its mechanism of action. Four manufacturing enterprises in Heilongjiang province were selected to fill in questionnaires. After that, we used multivariate statistical analysis methods for the empirical research. The results show that: empowering leadership behavior has a positive impact on communication satisfaction; communication openness mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and communication satisfaction. Therefore, organization leaders can improve staffs' communication satisfaction by cultivating new organization culture atmosphere that all people participating actively. At the same time, project decision-making groups should be set up. Managers can also set incentive systems to promote employees' responsibility.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2013 - 20th Annual Conference Proceedings
Pages1308-1313
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 20th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2013 - Harbin, China
Duration: 17 Jul 201319 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Management Science and Engineering - Annual Conference Proceedings
ISSN (Print)2155-1847

Conference

Conference2013 20th International Conference on Management Science and Engineering, ICMSE 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period17/07/1319/07/13

Keywords

  • communication openness
  • communication satisfaction
  • decision making
  • empowering leadership behavior

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