EMPLOYEE WORK EMPOWERMENT AS PREDICTOR OF ROLE INNOVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL TRUST (#52617)

Abstract
The study investigated the role of Employee empowerment on organizational trust and role innovation among 272 employees drawn from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Organization trust was assessed with 32-item scale that addresses five dimensions of trust built from Mishra’s (1996) model for organizational trust, while employee work empowerment was assessed with 12-item empowerment scale developed and validated by Spreitizer (1995). Role innovation was measured with 6-item scale originally developed by west (1987). Results showed that employee work empowerment positively predicted organizational trust (B=.27,P  .01)., while it negatively predicted role innovation (B=-. 15,P  .05). The findings and implications were discussed based on the theoretical and empirical background and in relation to Nigeria socio- economic realities. Limitations of the study were highlighted and suggestions made for further research

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page --------iCertification---------iiDedication ----------iiiAcknowledgement ---------vTable of content---------viList of Table ---------        viiList of Appendices ----------       viiiAbstract -----------ix
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION -----1Statement of the Problem -------10Purpose of the study --------12Operational Definition of Term-------12

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW - -----14Theoretical Review --------14Empirical Review ---------31Hypothesis -----------58

CHAPTER THREE: METHOD ------59Participants ----------59Instruments ---------59Procedure ---------66Design and statistics --------66
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS 67
CHAPTER FIVE: DISCUSSION-------75Implications of the study --------80Limitations of the study ---------82Suggestions for further Researchers-----84Summary and Conclusion -------85References ----------87Appendices -----------        99 LIST OF TABLESTable 1: Descriptive Statistics and inter-correlations among the study variables, and control variables-------67
Table 2: Regression Co-efficient table of the control variables, employee     work empowerment and role Innovation  -----69
Table 3: Regression Co-efficient table of the control variable employee    work empowerment and organizational trust--70