An Empowerment Scale Analysis of Mexican MSMEs: Modeling with Covariance Structures
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An Empowerment Scale Analysis of Mexican MSMEs: Modeling with Covariance StructuresAuthor(s)
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del Río-Rama, M.C.; Ríos-Manríquez, M.; Álvarez-García, J.; Sánchez-Fernández, M.D. An Empowerment Scale Analysis of Mexican MSMEs: Modeling with Covariance Structures. Mathematics 2020, 8, 1817. Doi: 10.3390/math8101817
Abstract
[Abstract] Trained human capital is a source of incalculable resources, with an impact on the results
of companies. For this reason, companies must carefully consider three aspects: empowerment
with the consideration of the cognitive state of their collaborators; training and compensation;
and fluidity in information sharing. Although granting empowerment to collaborators has been
shown to be beneficial for organizations, its adoption has not been popularized. Therefore, it remains
a construct that needs to be studied and understood, considering that it is influenced by the
organizational culture of companies. In this research, the main objective was to examine the
factor structure of the empowerment scale from the perspective of the owner or manager of
the micro, small and medium-sized companies of Guanajuato, Mexico; using the dimensions of
psychological empowerment; fluidity in information sharing; as well as training and compensation.
The methodology is based on the Mathematical Economy; application of mathematical methods
to represent theories and analyze problems in economics. This investigation used an exploratory
and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate the proposed measurement scale. The sample
is made up of 222 valid questionnaires. The CFA provided evidence that the model that best fits
the data is a second-order model made up of two dimensions: self-efficacy and influence on the
company’s results, which carry the psychological empowerment construct. These results make clear
that although information is necessary to train human capital, cognitive variables are more important
in the empowerment of human capital
Keywords
Empowerment scale
Confirmatory factor analysis
México
Confirmatory factor analysis
México
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2227-7390