Exploring the Link Between Structural Empowerment, Workplace Bullying, and Continuance Commitment: The Role of Person-Related and Work-Related Bullying as Mediators and Serial Mediators.

Employee empowerment as a management intervention promotes employee engagement: Psychological empowerment is found to influence employee engagement and organizational commitment, but the effect of structural empowerment (SE) is not explored much. SE increases employees' self-esteem, which can encourage a dissatisfied employee to look for other better work options, thus influencing their continuance commitment (CC). Workplace bullying is associated with higher turnover intentions and reduced commitment.