The Mediating Role of Team Members’ Empowerment in the Link Between Leadership Stages and Organizational Outcomes

Background: Leaders are expected to be versatile in their work, needing to adapt their leadership style, attitude, and skills to contribute to the team’s growth and development. At different stages of team development, leadership approaches need to evolve to guide the team to the next stage.

Aim: This study aims to analyze the mediating role of team members’ empowerment in the relationship between effective team leadership stages and organizational outcomes.

Methodology: The data for this correlational research (empirical) study was collected through a structured questionnaire, that includes questions framed to measure effective team leadership concerning the stages of team development, i.e. LAS - General Leadership attitude and Skills, DCL - Directive and Confident Leader, MEM - Involving Members in leadership and participating as an Expert and ITL - Inter Team Leadership. The sample of 115 was drawn from the executive level leaders across the organizations through LinkedIn platform using a snowball sampling technique during the period of September 2023 to November 2023. The hypothesized relationships were then analyzed using the structural equation model IBM SPSS and AMOS software.

Findings: Results revealed that there is a relationship between effective team leadership stages and organizational outcomes and also found that there is a significant mediation role of EPM - team members’ empowerment on the relationship between effective team leadership stages and organizational outcomes.