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EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT AND EMPOWERING LEADERSHIP: A

LITERATURE REVIEW

VU MINH HIEU
Faculty of Business Administration, Van Lang University, Vietnam
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

ABSTRACT
Empowerment fosters employee’s creativity, quality of work-life, spirit of
teamwork and organisational effectiveness. organisations do not only need to
empower employees but should also encourage empowering leadership.
Empowering leadership connotes the sharing of power and motivating employees
to crave for superior performance. This paper focuses on literature in the
employee empowerment and empowering leadership contexts. Considering the
role people play in organisations, it is important to understand the impact of
employee empowerment and empowering leadership on organisational
outcomes. The author used historical data and findings from previous studies to
draw insight on the subject. Based on our review, it was observed that employee
empowerment fosters employee performance, job satisfaction, organisational
commitment, customer satisfaction, productivity and business growth.
Empowering leadership have been examined from the structural and motivational
theoretical perspective. Several studies lend credence to the positive influence of
empowering leadership on employees’ psychological empowerment. The author
proposed some recommendations for managers to implement.
Keywords: empowerment, empowering leadership, delegation, obsession
passion

INTRODUCTION
All the present organisations require knowledge and skilled employees to sustain superior
performance. More so, intense competition in various markets calls for committed employees.
In this context, employee empowerment is an important success factor for firms. Empowerment
enhances employees’ trust, commitment and productivity (Nwachukwu, 2016). Empowerment
promotes employee participation in decision making, good idea generation and execution. It
has been argued that empowerment serves as a guideline that foster effectiveness, productivity
and employee satisfaction. By accepting more responsibilities employees can be motivated to
grow their competencies and capabilities. Employee empowerment focuses on sharing
power/responsibility and eliciting the commitment of organisations workforce. Committed and
loyal employees achieve organisational objectives (Locke & Latham, 1990), and are more

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productive, possess higher responsibility and job satisfaction (Karim & Rehman, 2012).
Organisations with committed employees experience low labour turnover, satisfied and highly
motivated people (Sahoo, Behera, & Tripathy, 2010). Empowering leadership connotes
“sharing power” and motivating employees to put in exceptional performance in their work
(Zhang & Bartol, 2010). Extant literature suggests that empowering leadership influence
employee work performance and routine task performance (Ahearne, Mathieu & Rapp, 2005;
Amundsen & Martinsen, 2014; Vecchio, Justin & Pearce, 2010), creative performance
(Amundsen & Martinsen, 2015; Zhang & Bartol, 2010; Zhang & Zhou, 2014). Other scholars
did not report a positive effect of empowering leadership (Cheong, Spain, Yammarino & Yun,
2016; Humborstad, Nerstad & Dysvik, 2014). For empowering leadership to be effective, the
delegated responsibilities must be perceived as motivating by employees. The goal of the paper
is to examine the concepts of employee empowerment and empowering leadership based on the
review of relevant literature and propose recommendations to managers.

METHODOLOGY
The paper uses the systematic literature review method to achieve the study goal. The author
analysed full-text articles obtained from SCOPUS, EBSCO and Google Scholars. The search
criteria include: both empirical and theoretical papers, keywords: employee empowerment and
empowering leadership. After irrelevant articles were removed, 45 articles were selected and
analysed. This paper is organized as follows: The next section presents an overview of strategic
management in tourism, tourism in African and the nature of tourism in selected African
countries. Followed by the analyses of the economic contribution of tourism in sample African
countries. Finally, conclusions and recommendations are presented.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Conceptualising employee empowerment
The concept of employee empowerment has been defined by scholars in different ways. Most
of them agree that empowerment connotes giving employees discretion over certain task-related
activities. According to Randolph (1995) employee empowerment is the “transfer of power”
from the employer to the employees. Employee empowerment focuses on developing trust,
motivation, and participating in decision-making (Meyerson & Dewettinck, 2012).
Empowerment gives an employee the authority to make decisions (Saif & Saleh, 2013), thus,
they can be motivated, committed, satisfied and help in dealing with customer needs
(Jacquiline, 2014). Huxtable (1994) asserts that employee empowerment is giving authority to
employees to deal with daily job activities. Management scholars have expanded the
conceptualisation of empowerment beyond discretionary power and job autonomy. For
instance, Spreitzer (1995) opines that empowerment should be viewed from a psychological
perspective reflecting an individual’s feelings of self-control and self-efficacy. Arnold, Arad,
Rhoades and Drasgow (2000) contend that empowerment should focus on the nature of the
association between managers and their subordinates. There are four perspectives to
empowerment (Wooddell, 2009; Herrenkohl et al., 1999): (1) common attitude (success in
meeting goals, customer-oriented, goal clarity), (2) The organisational support (authority in
decision making, taking responsibility team effectiveness, risk-taking and employee intention
toward customer orientation), (3) knowledge and learning (encouraging for changing, skills and
tendency for change, trust, communication with customers), (4) fundamental recognition (the

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awareness and knowledge of reward system). Spreitzer (1995) identifies five cognitive
dimensions which managers can use to empower employees. He opines that managers need to
create five characteristics in employees to empower them: Sense of competence, sense of self-
organised, sense of being effective, sense of being meaningful or important and sense of trust
others. Sense of Competence (self-effectiveness) connotes a person's belief that another person
can do his/her tasks. It has been argued that this attribute is the most important because it
determines if people try hard or persevere to do their duties or not. Sense of self-organized
(Sense of having the right of selection) suggests that self-organised people perform their tasks
voluntarily not by force. They see themselves as self-starters and very active persons. Sense of
being effective connotes the ability of a person to effectively manage administrative, strategic
and operational results and consequences (Spreitzer, 1995). When people are empowered, they
can control and influence the environment they work or they can change the results. Sense of
being meaningful or important explain the reason people pursue valuable and important job
goals. Sense of being meaningful or important suggest, that empowered people use their time
and energy worthfully. Sense of trust others means the trust between managers and subordinates
which is linked to the trust in interests, competency and trust others. These five characteristics
can enable managers to successfully empower their employees.
Employee empowerment strategies
Empowerment strategies and techniques which provide a feeling of support for subordinates
and increase their confidence will be effective on reinforcing belief (Barsi, Ziglari & Abadi,
2013). Scholars suggest that employee empowerment strategies include management leadership
and commitment, communication, employee inclusion, reward system, clearly defined goals,
managerial strategies, training, delegation of authority, formation of bipartite committees, sense
of trusteeship, employees suggestion scheme and interaction with top executives (e.g Sahoo &
Das, 2011). Arguably, effective management leadership and commitment is needed to maintain
employee empowerment. Employees will demonstrate a high level of commitment if they
perceive that top management show commitment by providing adequate resources. Top
management must communicate the company mission and objective to employees so that they
will know what value to add to the organisation. Indeed, communication supports the firm
culture, foster coordination and facilitate decision making consistent with the strategic
objectives of the organisation. Kathuria and Davis (2001) note that organisation need to involve
employees in critical thinking, basic leadership and methodology details to enhance
performance. Inclusion allows employees to secure new information and understand what is
expected of them. Arguably, a robust reward system is important to empower employees and
motivate them to put in their best. Employees are empowered and motivated when their
organisations set clear and challenging goals. Managers should create an environment that
supports employees to do everything they want desirously and intentionally. Managerial
strategies such as delegation, participating in decision making and leadership style can promote
employee empowerment. Training will motivate employees to participate more actively by
improving their confidence level. Arguably, employees training should focus on total quality,
decision making, customer care and employee relations. Employee training has been associated
with a couple of benefits such as lower costs, reduced turnover and absenteeism, increased
revenues, employee satisfaction and flexibility empowerment. Delegation of authority can
enable an organisation to nurture hidden talents and competencies to meet the business need.
Formation of bipartite committees will promote healthy employee relations climate and
superior organisational performance. Sense of trusteeship can motivate employees to achieve

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both organisational goals and individual desires and needs. Employees suggestion scheme
provides employees with the opportunity to influence managerial decision making and involve
themselves in organisation building activities. Interaction with top executives is the right
platform for employees to raise several issues, offering their views, and suggestions for the
survival and sustainability of the organisation.
Effects of employee empowerment
According to Kumar and Kumar (2017) employee empowerment is a motivational strategy that
promotes employees’ sense of satisfaction towards their job and organisation. They add that
empowered employees are happy with the training they received, self-development
programmes, employee meetings, their participation in the various activities and consideration
of their ideas and opinion. Extant literature suggests that employee empowerment has a direct
influence on employee performance (Meyerson & Dewettinck, 2012), job satisfaction (Raza,
Mahmood, Owais & Raza, 2015; Wadhwa & Verghese, 2015), and organisational
commitment (Gholami, Soltanahmadi, Pashavi & Nekouei, 2013; Insan, Astuti, Raharjo &
Hamid, 2013; Kun, Hai-yan & Lin-li, 2007). Mukwakungu, Mankazana & Mbohwa (2018)
found that employee empowerment significantly influences customer satisfaction, quality
improvement and organisational effectiveness. They conclude that organisations should give
attention to the work environment because employees working conditions foster productivity.
Nadeem et al. (2018) find that a significant relationship exists between employee empowerment
and organisational performance. Celik et al. (2014) demonstrate that employee empowerment
fosters organisational creativity and innovativeness among firms in Konya Organized Industrial
Zone, Turkey. They concluded that employee empowerment promotes organisational creativity
and innovativeness at the same time and managers should adopt a systematic approach to
empower employees. Hunjra, UlHaq, Akbar and Yousaf (2011) submit that employee
empowerment promotes achievement, productivity and business growth. As such, management
should communicate the strategic direction of the firm to all employees to monitor its business
performance. Hanayshahe (2016) reports that employee empowerment is connected to
organisational commitment. They concluded that a higher employee’s empowerment trait will
lead to superior organisational performance. Laschinger, Finegan and Shamian (2002) suggest
that creating an environment that supports the applications of empowerment at the workplace
will enhance employees’ commitment and organisational effectiveness. However, Nwachukwu
(2016) reports that employee empowerment is not significantly related to the organisational
culture of banks in Nigeria. He concludes that managers should be conscious of how they
empower employees because it may weaken the organisation culture
Effects of empowering leadership
The concept of empowering leadership was primarily proposed by Manz and Sims (2001). They
opine that leaders should lead employees to lead themselves “superleadership’’. Two different
theoretical lenses have been used to examine empowering leadership; the structural
empowerment and motivational perspectives. The structural empowerment theoretical lens
emphasises on leaders sharing power and delegating tasks to employees (Leach, Wall &
Jackson, 2003; Conger & Kanungo, 1988), while the motivational lens focuses on employee
perceptions of empowerment (i.e., psychological empowerment), such as self-determination,
and self-efficacy (Spreitzer, 1995; Conger & Kanungo, 1988). Using the two lenses, Zhang and
Bartol (2010), conceptualized empowering leadership as a process of delegating power to

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employees to increase their work motivation. Thus, empowering leadership involves sharing
power and motivating employees to superior performance. Broadly speaking, empowering
leadership, connotes improving the meaningfulness of work, encouraging employees
participation in decision making, showing confidence in high performance, and promoting
autonomy from bureaucratic barriers (Zhang & Bartol, 2010; Arnold, Arad, Rhoades &
Drasgow, 2000). Empirical studies have shown that empowering leadership foster employee
work performance by increasing one’s job self-efficacy (Cheong et al., 2016; Ahearne et al.,
2005), creative self-efficacy (Zhang & Zhou, 2014) and career self-efficacy (Biemann et al.,
2015). Scholars have examined the relationship between empowering leadership and employee
work performance through different psychological mechanisms (Amundsen and Martinsen,
2015; Li et al., 2015; Raub & Robert, 2010). Hao, He and Long (2017) find that empowering
leadership has a positive indirect relationship with employee task performance and creative
performance through harmonious passion, and a negative indirect association with employee
task performance through obsessive passion. Even though empirical studies suggest that
empowering leadership has a positive impact on employee work performance, some scholars
have reported negative or non-significant relationships (e.g Cheong et al., 2016; Humborstad
& Kuvaas, 2013). Further, the connection between empowering leadership and employee
passion for work has been examined. According to Chen et al. (2015) passion for work is a
motivational state that involves the blend of affective, cognitive, and behavioural elements. It
connotes a strong inclination toward an activity that people like and in which they spend time
and energy (Vallerand et al., 2003). Vallerand et al. (2003) assert that obsessive passion is more
likely to develop when employees experience an enforced internalisation of work. From the
motivational perspective of empowerment, empowering leadership enhances employees’
autonomous motivation (Conger & Kanungo, 1988). Extant literature suggests that when
leaders’ empowerment expectations are more than employees’ empowerment expectations,
employees may experience low intrinsic motivation and high role stress (Humborstad et al.,
2014; Humborstad & Kuvaas, 2013). Similarly, leaders’ high empowering behaviours may lead
to work-induced tension for employees (Cheong et al., 2016) and work resistance (Maynard,
Mathieu, Marsh & Ruddy, 2007).
CONCLUSIONS
Empowerment foster creativity, innovativeness and entrepreneurial behaviour of employees.
The 21st-century business environment demands employee empowerment and empowering
leadership. Indeed, an empowering organisation focuses on autonomy, proper information and
employee participation for organisational effectiveness. This paper reviews the employee
empowerment and empowering leadership. The review suggests that empowerment
encompasses common attitude organisational support, knowledge and learning and awareness
and knowledge of reward system. Further, five characteristics that foster successful employee
empowerment were identified; the sense of competence, sense of self-organized. sense of being
effective, sense of being meaningful or important and sense of trust others. The review
highlights some employee empowerment strategies; management leadership and commitment,
communication, employee inclusion, rewarding system, clearly defined goals, managerial
strategies, training, delegation of authority, formation of bipartite committees, sense of
trusteeship, employee suggestion schemes and interaction with top executives. It was observed
that employee empowerment has a positive influence on employee performance, job
satisfaction, organisational commitment, customer satisfaction, productivity and business
growth. However, employee empowerment may weaken a firm’s organisational culture.

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Nonetheless, employee empowerment is crucial for firms that want to achieve superior
performance. The review shows that structural and motivational perspective has been used to
examine empowering leadership. Empowering leadership is consists of delegation and
motivation. From the structural stance, empowering leadership has a positive influence on job
self-efficacy, creative self-efficacy and career self-efficacy. It was also observed that
empowering leadership impact on employee tasks performance through obsession passion and
harmonious passion. Employee autonomous motivation is influenced by empowering
leadership. Conversely, high empowering behaviour may have a negative effect on employee
wellbeing and performance. It is obvious from the review that both employee empowerment
and empowering leadership is needed to drive organisational success. The study, therefore, puts
forward the following recommendations;
1. Managers should provide employees with the right mix of information, knowledge,
power and rewards to energizes them for better performance.
2. Managers should provide employees with training and development opportunities to
increase their competence and ability to handle challenging jobs. Training and
development opportunities will encourage them to be involved in the organisation.
3. Managers must allow employees to have independence and feedback within the
organisation as this can boost their confidence.
4. Organisations should adopt a participative management style where employees
responsible for the tasks is involved in the decision-making process.
5. Managers must provide support, recognition and opportunities for employees as this can
propel them to put in effort, time and energy towards achieving the organisational goals.
By implementing the above recommendations, managers can create an environment that
empowers employees to increase the level of commitment for survival and sustainability of
organisations. The present study focused on the review of prior literature on the subject, which
somewhat limits its applicability. Nevertheless, it informs managers of the need to create a
climate that supports employee empowerment. Additionally, it highlights the role empowering
leadership plays in promoting employee tasks performance. Further studies should empirically
examine other consequences and antecedents of employee empowerment and empowering
leadership in varying contexts.

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