by Tekleab, Amanuel G.^Sims, Henry P., Jr.^Yun, Seokhwa^ Tesluk, Paul E.^Cox, Jonathan Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies • Feb, 2008 • This study examines the effects of leaders' self-awareness of their own leadership on followers' satisfaction, self-leadership, and leader effectiveness. A leader's self-awareness was conceptualized as the degree of similarity between the leader's s...

Handling Editor: Leanne Atwater We investigated the effect of self–other agreement in empowering leadership on leader effectiveness, job satisfaction, and turnover intention using a sample of 50 Norwegian municipal leaders (46 for leader effectiveness) and 168 (158) of their subordinates. The findings indicated that considering both self and subordinate ratings of empowering leadership was usef...

Finding ways to enhance employee proactive behavior is a focal concern for academics and practitioners. Previous studies have found a positive association between empowering leadership and proactive behavior (Martin et al., 2013; Li et al., 2017). However, these studies lack elaboration on mechanisms and do not rule out the effect of employees' proactive personality during empirical testing. We...

Background Empowering leadership and occupational safety Globally, the number of fatal occupational accidents in 2003 were estimated to 360,000 (Hämäläinen et al. 2009). The construction industry is one of the worst affected occupational sectors; among European construction workers 4.8% reported one or more accidental injuries in 2007 (Eurostat 2010). Traditionally, occupational safety has been...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the mechanism through which empowering leadership of a team leader might influence the team performance in IT service. Design/methodology/approach – The data of 315 individuals collected from 85 different IT projects through online survey is used to empirically test the hypotheses. Findings – The results confirm that team leader0...

This study was conducted in 2016 aimed to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership, uncertainty avoidance, trust, and employee creativity with regard to interaction effects and mediating mechanism. The population consists of 205 employees from the Nomadic affairs of Fars Province. In accordance with the Cochran formula, the sample size of 134 was calculated that were participa...

This research focused on the impact of empowering leadership behaviors on employees’ work outcomes, including in-role behaviors, organizational citizenship behaviors directed toward the organization (OCBO), and affective commitment. This impact is proposed to be mediated by psychological empowerment. Also, I propose the association between empowering leadership behaviors and psychological empow...

We surveyed management teams in 102 hotel properties in the United States to examine the intervening roles of knowledge sharing and team efficacy in the relationship between empowering leadership and team performance. Team performance was measured through a time-lagged market-based source. Results showed that empowering leadership was positively related to both knowledge sharing and team effica...

First, the paper starts with the meaning of power and empowerment and discusses the concept of empowering leadership. It summarizes the constructs and measuring instruments of empowering leadership by literature analysis. Second, on the basis of empirical researches, it analyzes the antecedents and effectiveness as well as intervening factors. Finally, it points out the limitations of current r...

0749-5978/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.10.006 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of B Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Universi 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. van Dijke). We examined how procedural fairness interacts with empowering leadership to promote employee OCB. We focused on two core empowering ...