Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 29th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview Open Session Author(s) Bianca Andrianu Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca Romania Title Resilience at the Workplace through Empowering Leadership. A comparative analysis File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Bianca Andrianu Abstract The purpose of this paper is to do an exploratory research on how empowering leadership can influence the resilience levels in 3 urban City Hall from the North-East of Romania and see if there are significant differences. The reason is to see if the level of development of the region has an influence on their capacity to overcome adversity and to investigate their relationship and dynamic at the workplace. The perception upon the empowering leader behavior can offer insight with regards to the probability of leaving the workplace, the dynamic of their communication and interaction between leader and follower but also within their teams. The Empowering Leadership Questionnaire (ELQ) analyses the leader’s ability to lead by example, to show concern for their employees and be involved in their work, to coach, guide and involve them in the decision-making process to improve their commitment, levels of motivation and ensure that they will not leave their job in case of adversity. Thus, an organization is more inclined in being resilient if there is an empowering leadership behavior that supports the team’s ability to thrive, increase performance, be motivated and committed to the leader’s vision by having confidence in his/her guidance and coaching methods. It is interesting to see the level of resilience in the aforementioned public institutions especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and having a follow-up, comparative study as further research. This first step can also support further research on doing comparative analysis not only from the same region, but to look at multiple ones to have a brighter image on how one can implement an empowering leadership behavior to further support resilient capabilities and understand which are the main key elements that support one’s success as opposed to one’s failure to lead a resilient organization (level of development, quality of life, poverty levels, etc.). Keywords: empowering leadership, resilience, quality of the workplace, ELQ, collaboration.
