The Role of Empowering Leadership in Workplace Wellbeing
Keywords:
empowering leadership, workplace well-being
Abstract
This research sought to identify the role of empowering leadership in workplace well-being through its application in the Dean's Educational Group. The dimensions of empowerment leadership, which include enhanced work meaning, participation in decision-making, and confidence in high performance, were adopted. The dimensions of workplace well-being, which include job satisfaction, organizational respect, employer care, and work interference in private life, were also adopted. The Dean's Educational Group was chosen as the field of research, and a random sample of employees was selected through a questionnaire that included (125) individuals. The correlation relationship between two variables was assessed using the simple correlation coefficient (Spearman) and the regression model's significance was determined using the (t) test. The relative percentage contribution of the independent variable to the explanation of the dependent variable was also calculated using (R2). The researcher's main finding is that empowered leadership has a major influence on workplace well-being. The study ended with a number of suggestions, including Al-Ameed Educational Group's emphasis on empowering leadership as a key aspect in its work in general and workplace well-being in particular.
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Biemann, T., Kearney, E., & Marggraf, K. (2015). Empowering leadership and managers' career perceptions: Examining effects at both the individual and the team level. The Leadership Quarterly, 26(5), 775-789.
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Cheong, M., Yammarino, F. J., Dionne, S. D., Spain, S. M., & Tsai, C. Y. (2019). A review of the effectiveness of empowering leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(1), 34-58.
Damianus, A., Magallanes, T., Foronda, G. S. L., & Encarnacion, M. J. (2020). Employees' workplace well-being and work engagement of divine word colleges' employees in Ilocos region, Philippines. International journal of academic research in business and social sciences, 9(2), 70-84.
Fong, K. H., & Snape, E. (2015). Empowering leadership, psychological empowerment and employee Outcomes: Testing a multi‐level mediating model. British Journal of management, 26(1), 126-138.
Kim, M., & Beehr, T. A. (2020). Empowering leadership: leading people to be present through affective organizational commitment?. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 31(16), 2017-2044.
Kim, M., & Beehr, T. A. (2023). Empowering leadership improves employees’ positive psychological states to result in more favorable behaviors. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 34(10), 2002-2038.
Kim, M., Beehr, T. A., & Prewett, M. S. (2018). Employee responses to empowering leadership: A meta-analysis. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 25(3), 257-276.
Kundu, S. C., Kumar, S., & Gahlawat, N. (2019). Empowering leadership and job performance: mediating role of psychological empowerment. Management Research Review, 42(5), 605-624.
Kwan, H. K., Chen, H., & Chiu, R. K. (2022). Effects of empowering leadership on followers’ work–family interface. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 33(7), 1403-1436.
Lee, S., Cheong, M., Kim, M., & Yun, S. (2017). Never too much? The curvilinear relationship between empowering leadership and task performance. Group & Organization Management, 42(1), 11-38.
Lisak, A., Harush, R., Icekson, T., & Harel, S. (2022). Team interdependence as a substitute for empowering leadership contribution to team meaningfulness and performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 637822.
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Mihail, D. M., & Kloutsiniotis, P. V. (2016). The effects of high-performance work systems on hospital employees' work-related well-being: Evidence from Greece. European Management Journal, 34(4), 424-438.
Murphy, R., O’Donoghue, E., Doyle, C., & Taaffe, C. (2018). An umbrella review of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of workplace wellbeing programmes. Research Services Unit, Department of Health.
Nathan, M. L. (2018). Holistic workplace wellbeing: construct, circumstances and strategic sustainability consequences. International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, 6(2), 145-166.
Pedroso, E., Gomes, C. F., & Yasin, M. M. (2020). Management accounting systems: an organizational competitive performance perspective. Benchmarking: An International Journal, 27(6), 1843-1874.
Rahmah, L. (2020). Organizational Justice and Work Satisfaction: Meta Analysis.". In International Conference on Psychology. SCITEPRESS-Science and Technology. ICPsy (pp. 254-261).
Rohlfer, S., Hassi, A., & Jebsen, S. (2022). Management innovation and middle managers: The role of empowering leadership, voice, and collectivist orientation. Management and Organization Review, 18(1), 108-130.
Sarafidou, J. O., & Chatziioannidis, G. (2013). Teacher participation in decision making and its impact on school and teachers. International Journal of Educational Management, 27(2), 170-183.
Semedo, C. S., Salvador, A., Dos Santos, N. R., Pais, L., & Mónico, L. (2022). Toxic leadership and empowering leadership: relations with work motivation. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 15, 1885-1900.
Sharma, P. N., & Kirkman, B. L. (2015). Leveraging leaders: A literature review and future lines of inquiry for empowering leadership research. Group & Organization Management, 40(2), 193-237.
Siddiqui, S. H., & Ijaz, A. (2022). Conceptualizing the Sustainable Workplace Well-being: A Measurement Framework. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 42(2), 363-380.
Spence, G. B. (2015). Workplace wellbeing programs: if you build it they may NOT come... because it's not what they really need. International Journal of Wellbeing, 5(2), 9-124.
Wang, H., Chen, X., Wang, H., & Xie, M. (2022). Employee innovative behavior and workplace wellbeing: Leader support for innovation and coworker ostracism as mediators. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1014195.
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2025-01-07
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Muhammed, Y. S., Mohammed, A. A., Mohammed, I. Z., Amanah, A. A., & Hasan, M. F. (2025). The Role of Empowering Leadership in Workplace Wellbeing. European Journal of Science, Innovation and Technology, 4(6), 134-145. Retrieved from https://ejsit-journal.com/index.php/ejsit/article/view/585
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