Psychological empowerment
Psychological empowerment is yet another commonly predicted outcome of self leadership. Indeed, self-leadership has often been proclaimed as a primary mechanism for facilitating empowerment. For example, Shipper and Manz(1992) have presented a case study that portrays self leadership as an integral part of the empowerment of the employees at Wii Gore and Associates. Self leadership may enhance feelings of empowerment by creating perceptions of meaningfulness, purpose, self determination, and competence. More precisely, the behavior-focused strategies of self observation, self goal, self setting and self reward can foster feelings of self determination and competence, self control and purpose. Because the purported relationship between self leadership and psychological empowerment has yet to be fully explored in the literature, we strongly encourage future research in this direction.