Title: Psychological empowerment as a stimulus of organisational commitment and quality of work-life: a comparative study between Egypt and India

Authors: Tarek A. El Badawy; Shalini Srivastava; Mariam M. Magdy

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, College of Business, Auburn University, Montgomery Alabama, USA ' Department of OB and HR, Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida, India ' Faculty of Management Technology, German University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract: Psychological empowerment is how employees view themselves relative to their superiors and work environments. Successfully influencing the construction of a positive perception will allow employers to reap organisational rewards from their employees. Statistic results are hardly generalisable as they depend on the work environment studied, the prevailing cultures and individual characteristics. The aim of this study was to conduct comparative analyses between two samples extracted from Egypt and India on the constructs psychological empowerment, organisational commitment and quality of work-life. Data were collected from several MBA classes to achieve the objective of diversity. Insightful results, practical implications and future research directions are provided.

Keywords: psychological empowerment; organisational commitment; quality of work-life; QWL; organisational psychology; comparative study; Egypt; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEBR.2018.094015

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2018 Vol.16 No.2, pp.232 - 249

Received: 31 Mar 2017
Accepted: 23 Jun 2017
Published online: 13 Aug 2018 *

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