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When Is Empowerment Effective? The Role of Leader-Leader Exchange in Empowering Leadership, Cynicism, and Time Theft

Natalia Lorinkova, +1 more
- 01 May 2017 - 
- Vol. 43, Iss: 5, pp 0149206314560411
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In this article, the authors examined the moderating effect of the upward exchange relationship of a leader on empowering leadership behaviors as they affect subordinate psychological empowerment, cynicism, and time theft, and found that the positive relationship between empowering leadership and employee psychological empowerment was significant only when the leader enjoyed a high quality relationship with his or her own boss.
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This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 2017-05-01. It has received 108 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cynicism & Social exchange theory.

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Resilience: A Review Using a Grounded Integrated Occupational Approach

TL;DR: Resilience, the ability to adapt to adversity and endure job demands, is growing in prominence in management literature with limited regard to occupational influences as mentioned in this paper, and it is defined as "the ability of adaptability and resilience to adversity".
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A review of the effectiveness of empowering leadership

TL;DR: This article proposed a framework for examining the effectiveness of empowering leadership that considers the feasibility of non-linear main effects of empowerment on work-related outcomes, the possibility of reverse causation between empowering leadership and work related outcomes, and potential contradictory mediating mechanisms through which empowering leadership influences workrelated outcomes.
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Employee Responses to Empowering Leadership: A Meta-Analysis

TL;DR: The authors meta-analyzed 55 independent samples to determine the association between empowering leadership and employee outcomes at the individual level, and found that empowering leadership influences employee outcomes in a variety of domains.
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Empowering group leaders encourages knowledge sharing: integrating the social exchange theory and positive organizational behavior perspective

TL;DR: The results show that empowering leadership in a work group has a direct cross-level impact on members’ knowledge sharing and that psychological capital partially mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and knowledge sharing.
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Effects of different leadership styles on hospitality workers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how different leadership styles can contribute to maximizing hospitality workers' potential, and demonstrate psychological empowerment to be a clear antecedent of job engagement, extending previous research.
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