1 When Affective Well-being is Empowered: The Joint Role of Leader-Member Exchange and the Employment Relationship Mieke Audenaert, Ghent University Alex Vanderstraeten, Ghent University Dirk Buyens, Vlerick Business School In Press at International Journal of Human Resource Management Mieke Audenaert 1 , Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Campus Mercator, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, mieke.audenaert@ugent.be, +32 9 243 29 56; Alex Vanderstraeten, Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Campus Mercator, Henleykaai 84, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, alex.vanderstraeten@ugent.be; Dirk Buyens, Department of HRM and Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vlerick Business School & Ghent University, Reep 1, 9000 Ghent, Belgium, dirk.buyens@vlerick.com 1 Corresponding author: