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International Journal of Social Psychology
Revista de Psicología Social
Volume 30, 2015 - Issue 3
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Transformational leadership and job satisfaction of police officers (carabineros) in Chile: the mediating effects of group identification and work engagement / Liderazgo transformacional y satisfacción laboral en carabineros de Chile: los efectos mediadores de la identificación con el grupo y el work engagement

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Pages 439-467 | Received 24 Jul 2014, Accepted 17 Sep 2014, Published online: 14 Sep 2015
 

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between transformational leadership and work satisfaction, as well as to analyse the mediating role of group identification and work engagement in a police training process at a Chilean professional military institution. The sample was made up of 985 candidates representing all the candidates that joined the units of the country in the different locations. Officers and non-commissioned officers acting as instructors were considered ‘leaders’, while their ‘followers’ were the young candidates in the training period. It was found that all the relevant variables were positively and significantly interrelated, and a model of structural equations revealed that both work engagement and group identification played a mediating role in the relationship between transformational leadership and work satisfaction.

Resumen

Este trabajo estudia la relación del liderazgo transformacional con la satisfacción laboral, y analiza el papel mediador de la identificación con el grupo y el work engagement dentro del proceso de formación policial en una institución de carácter militar. La muestra estuvo compuesta por 985 participantes y constituye el total nacional de los funcionarios que se incorporan semestralmente a las diferentes reparticiones. Se consideró como ‘líder’ a los oficiales y suboficiales que ocupan el cargo de ‘Instructor’ y a los jóvenes en proceso de formación policial, o ‘Aspirantes a Carabinero’, se los consideró como los seguidores. A nivel descriptivo se demostró que todas las variables incluidas se relacionan entre sí de manera significativa y positiva. A través de un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales se comprobó que tanto el work engagement como la identificación con el grupo ejercían un papel mediador en la relación entre el liderazgo transformacional y la satisfacción laboral.

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