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The Impact of Empowering Front-Line Managers on Planning Reliability and Project Schedule Performance
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Publication Year
2020-05-01
Journal
Journal of Management in Engineering
Publisher
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Citation
Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol.36 No.3
Keyword
Planning reliabilityProduction planningPsychological empowermentScheduling performanceStructural empowermentStructural equation modeling
Mesh Keyword
Production PlanningPsychological empowermentsScheduling performanceStructural empowermentStructural equation modeling
All Science Classification Codes (ASJC)
Industrial RelationsEngineering (all)Strategy and ManagementManagement Science and Operations Research
Abstract
This study applies empowerment theory to production planning at the level of frontline managers in a construction project. Using structural equation modeling, we investigate how empowering frontline managers impacts their planning performance. In contrast to prior studies, we find that although psychological empowerment of frontline managers has no direct effect on their production planning reliability or scheduling performance, it has an indirect effect on planning reliability and scheduling performance, as long as the organization supports the empowerment structurally during production planning. This implies that a project manager should provide frontline managers at the operational level with proper formal and informal authority over workflow development, shielding, and resource allocation when planning production in order to enhance job performance through psychological empowerment. This study contributes to the body of knowledge on construction management by exploring the impact of psychological and structural empowerment of frontline managers on their performance of production planning reliability and scheduling performance.
ISSN
0742-597X
Language
eng
URI
https://aurora.ajou.ac.kr/handle/2018.oak/31143
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000751
Journal URL
https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jmenea
Type
Article
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