Using positivity, transformational leadership and empowerment to combat employee negativity

By James Avey, L. Hughes, Steven M. Norman, K. Luthans. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Positive Psychological Capital as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage for Organizations (2010, unknown): “A recent study by Avey et al. 2008 showed that both PsyCap and transformational leadership strongly predict employee empowerment.”
Transformational leadership and turnover (2017, background): “It has been observed that psychological empowerment experienced by followers under a transformational leader predicts their intention to leave (Larrabee et al., 2003; Avey et al., 2008).”
Empowerment—Fad or Fab? A Multilevel Review of the Past Two Decades of Research (2012, background): “Consistently, higher levels of psychological empowerment have been found to be associated with lower intentions to leave or quit (Avey et al., 2008; Harris et al., 2009).”
Positive organisation : the role of leader behaviour in work engagement and retention : original research (2011, background): “Avey et al. (2008) found that empowerment is sub-sequential to engagement.”
Psychological capital and performance of Portuguese civil servants: exploring neutralizers in the context of an appraisal system (2010, background): “This can be worsened by lack of empowerment (Avey, Hughes, Norma and Luthans 2008 ) and goal clarity, and by the uncertainty about receiving rewards after reaching high performance scores.”
Leadership empowering behaviour, psychological empowerment, organisational citizenship behaviours and turnover intention in a manufacturing division (2015, background): “The results of this research support previous studies that indicated that a positive approach to leadership (Avey et al., 2008; Luthans, Yousef, Sweetman & Harmse, 2013; Van Dierendonck & Dijkstra, 2012; Youssef & Luthans, 2012) leads to empowerment (Avey et al., 2007; Van Dierendonck & Dijkstra,…”
EFFECT OF LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN (2016, background): “Further leadership mediated by empowerment help combat negativity which most employees experience (Avey et al., 2008) Therefore employees who are empowered are mostly creative are satisfied and in return produce increased performance.”
A Critical Assessment of Charismatic—Transformational Leadership Research: Back to the Drawing Board? (2013, background): “…leadership with a range of outcomes: organizational commitment (Avolio et al., 2004; Barroso Castro et al., 2008), intention to quit (Avey et al., 2007), job satisfaction (Barroso Castro et al., 2008), leadership satisfaction, in-role performance (Bartram & Casimir, 2007), and…”