will facilitate the empowerment of survivors.”
The affect of empowerment has been shown to raise the level of positive response among survivors of downsizing. If trust and empowerment are established among employees there is definitely more hope among them in response to downsizing. Job feedback and identity have been found to have a positive effect on the development of trust because it is a means of information and sharing. In the study conducted by Spreitzer and Mishra (1998: 2), it was determined that empowerment and trust are positively related to hopeful responses but there were some control variables that proved to be significant and procedural justice and role ambiguity negatively relate to survivor empowerment, “More involvement in implementing the downsizing, job significance, job feedback/identity, and job variety were positive predictors of survivor empowerment. Role ambiguity, and, contrary to expectations, procedural justi
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