A Relationship between Management Commitment, Psychological Empowerment, and Job Performance among Employees in Higher Educational Institutions in Palestine: Multi-Wave Survey

Abstract

This study aimed to assess the relationship between management commitment, psychological empowerment, and job performance among Palestinian academic employees in higher education institutions. A multi-wave survey was utilized and 665 academics were recruited from several public and private universities in West Bank, in which the stratified sampling method was adopted to select universities. Findings demonstrated that participants reported moderate levels of management commitment and job performance and agreeable levels of psychological empowerment. Management commitment and psychological empowerment positively correlated with job performance (p < 0.01). However, management commitment had a direct influence on job performance and management commitment had a relationship with psychological empowerment (p < 0.01). Thus, strategies should be carried out to enhance management commitment and psychological empowerment to improve job performance among academic staff.

Keywords:

• Higher education institutions
• job performance
• management commitment
• psychological empowerment
• West Bank

Ethics Approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) with Log No 22-138.

Consent to Participate

Each participant provided informed consent before beginning the study.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Author Notes

Bara Y. Asfour, has a Ph.D. degree in Business. He is working at Arab American University in Palestine where he is working as a President in addition to a researcher and an academic position as an assistant professor. He published many articles in specified journals.

Malakeh Z. Malak, has a Ph.D. degree in Community Health Nursing. She is working at Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan at Amman City in Jordan where she is working as a researcher in addition to an academic position as a professor. She is an Editorial Board Member for many journals including, BMC Psychology, BMC Nursing, the Journal of Nursing Management, Journal of Applied Life Sciences International, SM Addiction Research & Therapy, Global Journal of Health Science and Nursing, Integrative Journal of Global Health, and UPI Journal of Pharmaceutical, Medical and Health Sciences (UPI-JPMHS) and others. She is a reviewer of many Journals. She published many articles and she is working on other studies. She is an active member of community services and national/International organizations such as the Council of Asian Science Editors (CASE), International Health Literacy Association (AHLA), American Psychological Association International, and Jordan Society for Scientific Research, Entrepreneurship, and Creativity (JSSREC). Also, she participated in many conferences and workshops for professional development.

John Lipinski, has a Ph.D. degree in Management. He is working at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he is working as a researcher in addition to an academic position as a professor. He published many articles in specified journals.

Kenneth Bohl, has a Ph.D. degree in Management. He is working at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he is working as a researcher in addition to an academic position as an assistant professor. He published many articles in specified journals.

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Funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.