Empowering leadership and employee work engagement
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%
Authors
- Roar Espevik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6472-4636)
- Tommy Krabberød
- Henrik O. Sørlie (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2532-9980)
- Olav Kjellevold Olsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7674-7229)
- Hans-Christian Knevelsrud (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3440-4092)
- Arnold B. Bakker
- Jørn Hetland
Publication Details
- Journal
- Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana)
- Published
- 2026-02-26
- Primary Topic
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00