Empowering leadership and employee work engagement : a diary study using self-determination theory

Knevelsrud, Hans-Christian (avtor), Hetland, Jørn (avtor), Bakker, Arnold B. (avtor), Krabberød, Tommy (avtor), Sørlie, Henrik O. (avtor), Espevik, Roar (avtor), Olsen, Olav K. (avtor)

Empowering leaders delegate authority, grant autonomy, and assign responsibilities to individuals or teams. Drawing on empowerment theory and self-determination theory (SDT), the present study hypothesizes that daily empowering leadership is related to employee work engagement through (a) psychological empowerment, and (b) the satisfaction of basic psychological needs. We col- lected data among 86 Norwegian Navy cadets during a 30-day transatlantic voyage (response = 97%; n = 2022 observations). Consistent with hypotheses, results of multilevel mediation path analysis showed that daily leader autonomy support and development support were positively related to daily employee work engagement through psychological empowerment and satisfac- tion of the needs for autonomy, relatedness, and competence. Moreover, leaders’ autonomy- supportive behaviour was most strongly related to psychological empowerment (not need satis- faction) and indirectly to work engagement when development support was high (vs. low). We discuss how these findings support and contribute to empowering leadership literature, as well as the practical implications.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: organization, leadership, empowerment, engagement, basic needs, empowering leadership, self-determination theory, psychological empowerment, work engagement
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: EF - Ekonomska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: V tisku
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2025
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179906
• UDK: 658.3
• ISSN pri članku: 1359-432X
• DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2025.2594485
• COBISS.SI-ID: 261254915
• Datum objave v RUL: 26.02.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: European journal of work and organizational psychology
• Skrajšan naslov: Eur. j. work organ. psychol.
• Založnik: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1359-432X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 11626594

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: organizacija, vodenje, opolnomočenje, zavzetost