Personel Güçlendirmenin İş Yaşamında Yalnızlık Üzerindeki Etkisinde Kişilik Özelliklerinin Aracılık Rolü

Abstract

This research aims to reveal the mediating role of personality traits in the effect of employee empowerment on loneliness in the workplace. Workers from the main metal industry, manufacturing, education, wholesale and retail sectors in Istanbul, Hatay, Izmir, Kocaeli, and Zonguldak were included in the study. The data obtained by quantitative methods were subjected to a series of regression analyzes. According to the results it was found that the dimensions of personality traits named conscientiousness and emotional stability played a partial mediating role in the relationship between structural empowerment and loneliness in the workplace. The mediating role of the dimensions was examined and the determinations in this direction were obtained. As a remarkable finding, agreeableness personality trait plays a full mediating role between the information dimension of empowerment and the social companionship dimension of loneliness. According to age, seniority, education, personnel status and sector, there were significant differences between the groups.