Abstract:
The study investigated psychological empowerment, organizational justice and abusive supervision as predictors of work engagement among employees in manufacturing industries. Three hundred and thirty two workers drawn from Coscharis Beverages and Pure Water Manufacturing Company Ltd., Lagos and Happy Home Manufacturing Company, located at Kirikiri industrial area in Lagos participated in the study. Four instruments which include Psychological Empowerment Scale by Spreitzer (1995), Organizational Justice Scale by Colquits (2001), Abusive Supervision Scale by Tepper (2000), and Utrencht Work Engagement Scale by Schaufeli & Salanova (2002) were used for the study. The data collected were analyzed with Linear Regression analysis. The result of the study shows that psychological empowerment and organizational justice significantly predicted work engagement R = .247, P < .05 whereas abusive supervision did not predict work engagement
