Employee empowerment has been extensively examined in the management and leadership arena as a leadership behavior and related outcome in terms of power delegation and the sharing of decision-making control. Employee empowerment is defined in the present study as employees’ perceived capability to exert a certain level of control over situations and the environment in the organization, a fulfillment of “innate psychological needs such as competence, autonomy, and relatedness” as a part of engagement (Kang, 2010, p. 16).