The research aims to understand the connection among the self-leadership approaches and the emotional empowerment of the staff members at Tafila Technical University. The quantitative method was applied to analyze collected data by a survey of two-hundred and ten faculty members appointed at Tafila Technical University through questionnaire was constructed for that. The findings showed that natural prize and valuable thought-pattern strategies showed the most significant relationship with psychological empowerment. In contrast, behavior-focused strategies did not correlate with psychological empowerment. Therefore, higher teaching organizations should support staff members in setting their own goals and building psychological empowerment to create job satisfaction.