...Chao Li; Zhongming Wang; Honghao Hu Purpose This paper aims to investigate the relationship between empowering leadership and innovative job performance, with challenge stress and hindrance stress acting as parallel mediators. Additionally, the study examines how promotion focus and prevention...

...Liyuan Li; Ying Zhang; Xiaoming Zheng Purpose The potential contradictory impact of empowering leadership may obfuscate its effectiveness. Empowering leadership is characterized not only by increased employees' autonomy but also by additional responsibilities and work demands, which may trigger...

...Mario Martínez-Córcoles; Vicente Peñarroja; Konstantinos Stephanou Purpose Prior research indicates that empowering leadership has simultaneous contradictory effects on work performance. This study aimed to explore contradictory mechanisms through which empowering leadership is related to work...