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Empowering leadership: A conflict resolver and a performance booster for organizations

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Organizational sustainability has become a critical challenge in the current era. This research purpose is to determine the impact of empowering leadership on conflict management and employees’ performance for organizational sustainability. Furthermore, it also investigates the moderating impact of emotional stability on the relationship between empowering leadership, conflict management, and employee performance. Quantitative data for this research was collected from 512 middle-management-level employees from manufacturing firms in China. The partial least squares structural equation modelling results highlighted that empowering leadership positively impacts conflict management and employees’ performance. Furthermore, the study showed that the organization’s sustainability is possible with conflict management and employee performance when there is emotional stability. The theoretical grounding of this research closed a loop in the literature, and the findings are reliable for practice for organization sustainability.

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  • Yi Wang, 2023. "Empowering leadership: A conflict resolver and a performance booster for organizations," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(11), pages 1-17, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0294351
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294351
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