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In this era of globalization, there is a need for employees’ empowerment in the organization which wants to be competitive and
flourish. Level of employee empowerment in an organization depends on the leadership style in the organization. The various types of leadership
styles have different impact on empowerment of the employees. Servant leadership can bring about positive change in the organizations and
their employees. Servant leadership is demonstrated by empowering and developing people by expressing humility, authenticity, interpersonal
acceptance, and stewardship; and by providing direction Dierendonck.2011. The study is conducted in high technology-oriented organizations
in India by developing questionnaire consisting of 68 items to measure the servant leadership characteristics, empowerment and consequence
variables based on ten characteristics of servant leadership identified by Spears 1998 and Empowerment instrument developed by Gupta
2009. The study highlights that Foresight, Persuading, Awareness, and Stewardship characteristics of Servant leadership are very important
for Employee Empowerment. Stewardship, persuading and conceptualizing characteristics of servant leadership have positive impact on
consequences viz. organizational commitment, work environment satisfaction, role satisfaction and job involvement of employees leading to
higher performance of the organization providing the competitive advantage to the organization.