Empowering leadership: employee-related antecedents and consequences

We develop a theoretical model of empowering leadership that integrates role-based views of followership and social information processing theory and adds a reciprocal component to research on empowering leadership. Our theoretical model proposes that employee task performance and the quality of the...

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Published in:Asia Pacific journal of management 2022-06, Vol.39 (2), p.457-481
Main Authors: Wang, Shenghui, De Pater, Irene E., Yi, Ming, Zhang, Yuchen, Yang, Tsung-Pao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business and Management
Employees
Empowerment
Management
Supervisors
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Summary:We develop a theoretical model of empowering leadership that integrates role-based views of followership and social information processing theory and adds a reciprocal component to research on empowering leadership. Our theoretical model proposes that employee task performance and the quality of the supervisor-employee relationship serve as cues that shape supervisor empowerment behaviors, which, in turn, serve as cues that influence employee voice through employee state promotion focus. Data from 223 supervisor-employee dyads supported our hypotheses and showed that supervisors engage in more empowerment behaviors with employees who perform well and with whom they have a good relationship. Supervisors’ empowerment behaviors elicit a state promotion focus in employees, which stimulates these employees to express their concerns, ideas, and opinions in order to improve the functioning of the employee, the team, or the organization.
ISSN:0217-4561
1572-9958
DOI:10.1007/s10490-020-09734-w