Unpacking the Drawbacks of Empowerment and Empowering Leadership

There has been an unwavering interest in the study of empowerment and empowering leadership with empirical evidence showing their positive impacts on various work-related outcomes such as task performance, job attitudes, citizenship behaviors, and creativity for employees as well as teams. In the excitement of research in these areas, however, we have perhaps neglected to consider potential negatives and unforeseen challenges of empowerment and...