A multilevel quasi-experimental study of leadership, empowerment, and performance in teams

  • Gilad Chen
  • , Bradley L. Kirkman
  • , Ruth Kanfer
  • , Don Allen

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Abstract

Using a quasi-experimental design, we examined multilevel relationships among leadership, empowerment, and performance in a sample of 62 teams, 445 individual members, 62 team leaders, and 31 external managers from 31 stores of a Fortune 50 home improvement chain. We sampled two teams with different levels of interdependence in each store. Results indicated that, irrespective of team interdependence, different aspects of leadership predicted individual and team empowerment. Moreover, several team-level, cross-level, and individual-level relationships among both individual and team empowerment and performance were detected in high, but not in low, interdependent teams.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAcademy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event65th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2005 - Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: 5 Aug 200510 Aug 2005

Keywords

  • Leadership
  • Motivation
  • Teams

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