Empowering leadership: balancing self-determination and accountability for motivation

Purpose This study set out to investigate the role of self-determination and accountability in relationship between empowering leadership, motivation performance. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 172 participants working an international software development organization. Hypotheses tested PROCESS using Preacher Hayes (2008) bootstrapping method. Findings Results indicate that leadership played a significant satisfying basic psychological needs. As expected, satisfaction needs is related autonomous motivation. Crucially, perceived was also positively Research limitations/implications The cross-sectional design this limits ability rule possibility reverse causation. Practical implications results suggest traditional management practices such as can be successfully utilized conjunction with theory without undermining highlights two key opportunities for human resources (HR) professionals. Specifically, by equipping managers skills display behaviors, communicating organizational values individual job meaning enhance identified forms motivation, HR fully realize benefits employee Originality/value paper offers valuable insight into how leaders balance influence employees. model presented demonstrates potential achieving importance powerful correlate work