Empowering leadership and organizational culture

Abstract

For any organization to thrive and sustain in the competitive global market, its employees are their competitive advantage; in order to have a profitable business, employees must accept and follow the organizational mission and vision. A congruence between employees’ values and organizational culture is highly essential for both, organizational outcomes as well as employee wellbeing. Therefore, leaders’ empowering behaviors and the organization’s culture have a huge role to play in the employees’ flourishing experiences. The present research was undertaken in order to elicit how leaders’ empowering behaviors in association with organizational culture influence the flourishing at the workplace of employees. Based on responses gathered from 304 employees working in banking organizations in Delhi and Gurgaon, India, it was found that indeed leaders’ empowering behaviors, as well as the organizational culture, have a relation with flourishing experiences of employees. Leader behaviors of providing autonomy and control are critical in determining how well employees are able to experience positive emotion in the workplace.