Influences of empowerment by the leader on engineers' Resilience

Abstract

This paper studies the influences of empowerment by the leader on engineers' resilience and verifies the moderating effect of motivation system between the two variables. Through a systematic study, this study has found that: (1) the way of empowerment has significant impact on engineers' resilience; (2) engineers' resilience is greater in companies with good motivation system as compared with those offering insufficient motivation. (3) the theoretical implications of this study are that creating a new perspective for the study of resilience, and make a deep significance on the further research of resilience. Finally, some suggestions are put forward. The data used in this research is based on the questionnaire survey among 231 engineers from two large companies in China.