PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT, COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY, AND WORKFORCE AGILITY IN EMPLOYEES

Abstract

The current study was aimed to explore correlations between psychological empowerment, cognitive flexibility, and workforce agility in the employees. It was hypothesized that psychological empowerment and cognitive flexibility would be positively correlated with workforce agility; both would be able to significantly predict workforce agility, and that would be gender differences in psychological empowerment, cognitive flexibility, and workforce agility. For data collection, The Psychological Empowerment Scale (Spreitzer, 1995), Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI) (Dennis & Vander, 2010), and Workplace Agility Scale (Muduli, 2013) was employed on the 200 employees which were recruited through purposive sampling technique. For the purpose of data analysis, the Pearson correlation, multiple regression, and independent sample t-tests have been used. Findings from the study revealed a positive relationship between the psychological empowerment, cognitive flexibility, and workforce agility. Furthermore, Psychological empowerment and Cognitive flexibility were found to positive predictor of Workforce agility. Besides this, the independent sample t-test revealed that men have greater cognitive flexibility than women. These findings emphasize the need for organizations to gear up for the implementation of policies aimed at psychological empowerment and cognitive flexibility in order to achieve workforce agility.