Empowering Leadership and Work Engagement: The Role of Psychological Empowerment as a Mediator

DOI

10.2991/iciap-18.2019.78How to use a DOI?

Keywords

empowering leadership, psychological empowerment, work engagement

Abstract

Millennials’ domination of the workplace has resulted in increasing attention to the issue of engagement. Leaders need to enhance their understanding of leadership empowerment behavior as a means to increase employee engagement. Psychological empowerment encompasses a set of conditions necessary for intrinsic motivation and has been proposed as a mediator in the relationship between empowerment leadership and work engagement. This study explores the mediating role of psychological empowerment in relations between empowering leadership and the work engagement of millennial employees in Indonesia. A cross-sectional convenience survey design was used to collect data at a single time with an online and offline survey. Participants (n = 140) were Indonesian millennial employees from various organizations. The Empowering Leadership Questionnaire (ELQ), Measuring Empowerment Questionnaire (MEQ), and Work Engagement short version (UWES-9) were administered, and the mediation model Hayes and PROCESS Macro were used to investigate the hypothesis of the mediation role of psychological empowerment in relations between the variables. The results confirmed that psychological empowerment mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and work engagement. This research was conducted as an extension of previous research that further explores the role of psychological empowerment as a mediator in relations between empowering leadership and work engagement among millennial employees, particularly in Indonesia. This research has practical implications for how to engage millennial workers with empowering leadership styles, and it can inform the implementation of discussions and training programs promoting empowerment and developmental approaches in employment contexts.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Rizqi Zulfa Qatrunnada
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TI  - Empowering Leadership and Work Engagement: The Role of Psychological Empowerment as a Mediator
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