Psychological Empowerment and Job Satisfaction: Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

Lecturers of universities are very vital employees in any country because of the role they played for the production of critical manpower who control every sector that is important in any country.  This study aims to examine the mediating role of emotional intelligence on the relationship between lecturers` psychological empowerment which is made up of competence, impact, meaning and self-determination on lecturers` job satisfaction. In this study, a total of 670 copies of questionnaire were distributed to lecturers of all the public universities in Kano State, using simple random sampling; 559 were retrieved and used for analysis. Partial Least Squares Method (PLS) algorithm and bootstrap technique were used to test the hypothesis of the study. The study found emotional intelligence having significant mediating effect on the relationship between competence and meaning on job satisfaction. Universities in Nigeria are recommended to provide trainings on emotional intelligence to lecturers of universities to enable them cope with increasing stress and other challenges they faced on the job which will subsequently enhance their job satisfaction