Empowered Leadership and Employee Outcomes: Mediating Role of Employee Engagement

Usman Ghani, Muhammad Tahir Masood and Zia Ur Rehman
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Usman Ghani: PhD Scholar (LMS), National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Tahir Masood: Professor, Department of Management Sciences, University of Wah, Wah Cantt. Punjab, Pakistan.
Zia Ur Rehman: Assistant Professor, LMS Department, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Global Social Sciences Review, 2018, vol. 3, issue 2, 303-320

Abstract: Drawing on empowerment literature and intrinsic motivation, this study examines the relationship of empowering leadership and employee outcomes (service performance and organizational citizenship behavior; OCB), along with mediating role of employee engagement. Based upon data of 970 officer level employees working in banking industry of Pakistan, hierarchical regression results demonstrated that empowering leadership behavior is positively related to employee service performance and OCB. Further, the results also reveal employee engagement partially mediated the relationships between empowering leadership and employee behavioral outcomes.

Keywords: Empowering Leadership; Employee Engagement; Service Performance; OCB; Banking Sector of Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).17

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