Linking Empowering Leadership to Job Satisfaction, Work Effort, and Creativity: The Role of Self-Leadership and Psychological Empowerment

This article reports the results from two studies (N = 233 and 161) on the role of self-leadership and psychological empowerment in linking empowering leadership to subordinates’ job satisfaction, work effort, and creativity. In addition, the studies investigated self-leadership as a mediator betwee...

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Published in:Journal of leadership & organizational studies 2015-08, Vol.22 (3), p.304-323
Main Authors: Amundsen, Stein, Martinsen, Øyvind L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Creativity
Empowerment
Job satisfaction
Leadership
Psychological aspects
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Summary:This article reports the results from two studies (N = 233 and 161) on the role of self-leadership and psychological empowerment in linking empowering leadership to subordinates’ job satisfaction, work effort, and creativity. In addition, the studies investigated self-leadership as a mediator between empowering leadership and psychological empowerment. Results from structural equation modeling indicated that empowering leadership positively affects psychological empowerment both directly and indirectly, through self-leadership. Psychological empowerment influences both job satisfaction and work effort but not creativity, whereas self-leadership influences work effort and creativity but not job satisfaction. The article discusses the implications of these findings.
ISSN:1548-0518
1939-7089
DOI:10.1177/1548051814565819