This file was downloaded from BI Brage, the institutional repository (open access) at BI Norwegian Business School http://brage.bibsys.no/bi Organizational tenure and mastery-avoidance goals: the moderating role of psychological empowerment Sut I Wong Humborstad BI Norwegian Business School Anders Dysvik BI Norwegian Business School This is the accepted and refereed manuscript to the article published in The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(2016)12:1237-1251 Publisher’s version available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2015.1061579 Copyright policy of Routledge, Taylor & Francis, the publisher of this journal: 'Green' Open Access = deposit of the Accepted Manuscript (after peer review but prior to publisher formatting) in a repository, with non-commercial reuse rights, with an Embargo period from date of publication of the final article. The embargo period for journals within the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) is usually 18 months http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/copyright/Green-OA-AAM-embargo-periods.pdf