Psychological Empowerment, Organizational Justice And Abusive Supervision As Predictors Of Work Engagement

Abstract

The study investigated psychological empowerment, organizational justice and abusive

supervision as predictors of work engagement among employees in manufacturing industries.

Three hundred and thirty two workers drawn from Coscharis Beverages and Pure Water

Manufacturing Company Ltd., Lagos and Happy Home Manufacturing Company, located

at Kirikiri industrial area in Lagos participated in the study. Four instruments which include

Psychological Empowerment Scale by Spreitzer (1995), Organizational Justice Scale by Colquits

(2001), Abusive Supervision Scale by Tepper (2000), and Utrencht Work Engagement Scale by

Schaufeli & Salanova (2002) were used for the study. The data collected were analyzed with

Linear Regression analysis. The result of the study shows that psychological empowerment and

organizational justice significantly predicted work engagement R = .247, P < .05 whereas

abusive supervision did not predict work engagement.

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