Leadership d’habilitation et performance : étude dans le secteur de la fabrication métallique industrielle
The objective of this research is to measure the impact of empowering leadership on different performance outcomes: task performance, contextual performance and deviance behaviors. We tested in this study that this type of leadership would improve task performance and contextual performance as well as lower the prevalence of deviance in the workplace. Moreover, we tested the impact of organizational support in this relationship and hypothesized that it would enhance the effect of empowering leadership on performance criteria.   This study was conducted in the industrial metalworking sector of Québec, an economic sector that needs to be revamped by improving the productivity of its human resources. The data was collected by distributing surveys to 263 employees of the sector and their supervisors and structural equation modeling was used to test our research hypotheses. Results show that empowering leadership reduces deviance behaviors in the workplace. Our hypotheses concerning the moderating role of organizational support were not supported. Additional analyses showed the essential role of psychological empowerment in the positive relation between empowering leadership and both task performance and interpersonal contextual performance. Overall, our results show that organizations in the metalworking industry would benefit from the training of their managers to an empowering leadership style because it can reduce deviance behaviors and ameliorates task performance and interpersonal contextual performance through the generation of psychological empowerment.
Leadership Empowerment Performance Organizational citizenship behaviors Workplace deviance Organizational support