The Impact of Organizational Empowering Leadership Behavior on Individual Adaptive Performance: Cross-Level Mediation Effect of Organizational Psychological Empowerment

Abstract

This study explores how the internal organizational empowering environment has an impact on individual adaptive performance? Based on the theory of empowering, it builds the concept model of organizational empowering leadership behavior, organizational psychological empowerment and individual adaptive performance, and aims to analyze the impact of organizational empowering leadership behavior on individual adaptive performance through organizational psychological empowerment. Through the questionnaire of 420 staffs from 9 large-medium-sized enterprises of three provinces in Northeast China, the researcher verifies the hypothesis and gets the following conclusion: Organizational empowering leadership behavior has a significant positive impact on individual adaptive performance; Organizational empowering leadership behavior has a significant positive impact on organizational psychological empowerment; Organizational psychological empowerment would play a cross-level mediating effect between organizational empowering leadership behavior and individual adaptive performance, and it is a full mediation. The conclusion of the study enriches the relevant research results of the influence of the internal empowering environment on the individual adaptive performance, and it has a good reference for the management practice of improving individual adaptive performance.