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Empowering Leadership: Its Link to Work Engagement Through Perceived Competence Mobilization, Organizational Cynicism and Motivational Climate

Holstad, Siri Langmoen; Granaas, Sara Louise Bjelkmark
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2020
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Abstract
Empowering leadership has long been proven to have several positive

effects on employee outcomes such as work engagement. However, researchers

have stressed that previous studies on empowering leadership lack consistency.

The need for a more balanced investigation to understand when and why

empowering leadership leads to work engagement or sometimes disengagement

has therefore been requested. Thus, the present study investigates empowering

leadership’s link to work engagement through the mediators perceived

competence mobilization and organizational cynicism. Further, motivational

climate was included as moderator between empowering leadership and the

mediators to investigate its possible contextual influence.

We employed a cross-lagged design containing responses from 110

employees among 19 industries. The results of our analysis give support for

organizational cynicism as a mediator between empowering leadership and work

engagement. Thus, the findings suggest that empowering leaders can help to

reduce employees’ cynical attitudes and thereby reduce their work engagement.

Further, the study found support for a moderated mediation effect in low to

moderate levels of performance climates in the relationship between empowering

leadership and organizational cynicism on work engagement. However, there was

no support for perceived competence mobilization as a mediator between

empowering leadership and work engagement. Further, no support was found for

mastery climate as moderated mediation effect. Theoretical and practical

implications are discussed, as well as limitations and directions for future

research.

Keywords: empowering leadership, organizational cynicism, perceived

competence mobilization, mastery climate, performance climate, work

engagement
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Leadership and Organizational Psychology - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2020
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