Given the strongly held consensus that empowering leadership is beneficial, leadership scholars have overstated its benefits and overlooked its costs. In response to increasing calls for investigation of empowering leadership's double-edged effects, we uncover the enabling and burdening effects of empowering leadership on employees' work-life interface by positioning job demands (learning demands and outcome responsibility) and work passion (harmonious passion and obsessive passion) as important underlying mechanisms. Four-wave data based on the Indian managerial employees (n = 251) supported our serial mediation hypotheses. Our study provides researchers and practitioners with new insights into the mechanisms explaining the double-edged effects of empowering leadership on employees' work-life interface.
Co-author(s): Minseo Kim; Ayushi Shukla
Journal: The International Journal of Human Resource Management
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