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LEADERSHIP QUARTERLY
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 602-616Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2016.01.006
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Empowering leadership; Self-efficacy; Job induced tension; Paradoxical mechanisms of enabling and burdening; NHST and Bayesian tests
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Despite prior work primarily focused on positive outcomes resulting from empowering leadership, scant research in this realm has questioned and examined whether, in all cases, more empowering leadership is actually associated with more desirable outcomes. Based on the cost of autonomy and role theory perspectives, the current study proposes that beyond an enabling process of empowering leadership enhancing followers' self-efficacy and performance, there is a burdening process in which specific empowering behaviors of the leader increase followers' job induced tension, which in turn diminishes the positive influence of empowering leadership on followers' work role performance. The results generally support these contrasting notions, suggesting that there are two faces, enabling and burdening, of empowering leadership. Implications for future research and professional practice on empowering leadership are also discussed. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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