Defining and Measuring Empowering Leader Behaviors: Development of an Upward Feedback Instrument

By Lee J. Konczak, Damian J. Stelly, M. Trusty. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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The influence of leader empowering behaviors and employee psychological empowerment on customer satisfaction (2014, methodology): “Few studies have considered a leader’s role in employee empowerment processes (Konczak et al., 2000).”
Employee Responses to Empowering Leadership: A Meta-Analysis (2018, background): “…Sharima, Edinger, Shapiro, and Farh (2011) Dahinten et al. (2014) Dewettinck and van Ameijde (2011) Fong and Snape (2015) Kim and Beehr (2017c) Konczak et al. (2000) Kwak (2011) N. Li, Chiaburu, and Kirkman (2014) Lorinkova and Perry (2014) Namasivayam, Guchait, and Lei (2014) Randolph and…”
Leadership empowering behaviour, psychological empowerment, organisational citizenship behaviours and turnover intention in a manufacturing division (2015, methodology): “In support, Konczak et al. (2000) state that the leader of the future should tune into the environment by sensing the need for opportunity; engaging in kaleidoscope thinking by challenging assumptions to create new opportunities; encouraging follower buy-in by communicating inspiring visions;…”
The organizational empowerment scale (2003, methodology): “Although interest in empowerment has led to the development of several scales that are intended to measure levels of empowerment in a workplace setting (e.g. Spreitzer, 1995; Konczak et al., 2000), the present authors could find no scale that encompasses both perspectives of empowerment in a diagnos”
The Servant Leadership Survey: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Measure (2010, background): “Accountability, as defined in this article, has to our knowledge only been included in the study on empowering leader behaviors by Konczak et al. (2000).”
When does procedural fairness promote organizational citizenship behavior? Integrating empowering leadership types in relational justice models (2012, background): “Instruments that have been developed to assess empowering leadership (Arnold, Arad, Rhoades, & Drasgow, 2000; Konkczak et al., 2000; Pearce & Sims, 2002) distinguish between various empowering leadership styles.”
The Functions of a Servant Leader (2017, background): “• Developing others to prosper personally, professionally, and spiritually [17,18,39,40,42,49,59,60], • Having a transformational influence on followers [24], • Transferring responsibility and authority to followers [7], • Providing clear directions and boundaries [43], • Aligning and activating ind”
Organizational Commitment of Teachers in Urban Schools (2006, background): “Konczak, Stelly, and Trusty (2000) found, for example, that psychological empowerment mediated the relationship between leader behaviors and organizational commitment.”
Crossover Effects of Servant Leadership and Job Social Support on Employee Spouses: The Mediating Role of Employee Organization-Based Self-Esteem (2015, background): “In addition, servant leadership encourages employee learning by providing opportunities and empowering employees to make self-directed decisions (Konczak et al. 2000) from which they develop the required skills, knowledge, needs, and abilities to achieve their personal career goals.”