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Leader empowering behavior : how do trust and leader-subordinate congruence in personal need for structure influence a leader's motivation to empower?

Hauger, Camilla; Randen, Siri
Master thesis
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2014-02-12
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Abstract
An important part of understanding leader empowering behavior is to establish its

determinants. By understanding its determinants, leaders can become aware of

what may influence their behavior, both unconsciously and consciously. This

study therefore explores leader empowering behavior in relation to such assumed

determinants in order to test if they have an impact on exercising leader

empowering behavior. Our chosen determinants for this study are related to

empowerment in both new ways and in old ways. The new angle is to look into

similarity in personality characteristics, and more specifically personal need for

structure. The old angle is linking trust to empowerment, which have been done in

several previous studies. However, we have chosen to follow a more recent

approach and look at leader’s trust in subordinates as a determinant. We propose

that personality similarity in personal need for structure will lead to more trust in

subordinates, and that higher trust again will influence leader empowering

behavior. We justify this approach by previous researchers’ findings that

personality similarities lead to more trust, and from indications that trust between

leader and subordinate is likely to lead to leader empowering behavior. We further

intend to establish if there is a direct relationship between personality similarities

and leader empowering behavior, hence a direct relationship between similarity in

personal need for structure and leader empowering behavior.

Contrary to our expectations, and previous research supporting a positive

influence of similarity in individual differences, leader-subordinate congruence in

personal need for structure did not influence trust nor leader empowering

behavior. Rather, our findings reveal that subordinates’ levels of personal need for

structure appear to play an important role for leaders’ trust in subordinates,

however not in relation to the display of leader empowering behavior. An

elaborative discussion of our findings is shared along with possible limitations

and directions for further research.
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Masteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Leadership and Organizational Psychology - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2014

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