| dc.description.abstract | Organizations are increasingly striving to empower their employees in the quest to
ensure optimal teamwork, self-confidence, innovation, and fulfilment in the workplace.
The general objective of the study was to establish the effects of employee
empowerment on job satisfaction of commercial state corporations in Kenya.
Furthermore, the study sought to achieve four specific objectives. To begin with, the
study sought to assess the influence of job design on job satisfaction of commercial state
corporations in Kenya. Additionally, the study sought to establish the influence of
transformational leadership on job satisfaction of commercial state corporations in
Kenya. The study also sought to establish the influence of employee involvement on job
satisfaction of commercial state corporations within Kenya. Lastly, the study sought to
establish the influence of knowledge-sharing practices on job satisfaction of commercial
state corporations in Kenya. The study employed the descriptive research design in
collecting data from the field. The target population of this study consisted of 55
commercial state corporations in Kenya. The sample size was 48 commercial state
corporations. The subsequent collected data was cleaned and compiled into a dataset
using MS Excel software. The multiple regression analysis revealed a strong positive
linkage between job satisfaction and staff empowerment (r=0.794). Importantly, only job
design (β =0.909), transformational leadership (β =0.149), employee involvement (β
=0.008) and knowledge sharing practices (β =0.385) were found to have a significant
influence on job satisfaction of Commercial State Corporations in Kenya (α<0.05).
Besides the degree of influence that the sub-variables of employee empowerment had
on job satisfaction varied. Job design had the highest level of influence, followed by
Knowledge-sharing practices, Transformational leadership, and lastly, employee
involvement. The study thus determined that employee empowerment had a significant
relationship with job satisfaction in the commercial state corporations in Kenya. In
particular, the study revealed that job design was the most dominant employee
empowerment tool at commercial state corporations in Kenya. The study recommended
that these organizations consider employee empowerment policies that aim to boost
knowledge-sharing practices, transformational leadership and employee involvement | en_US |
