The organizational context, through new challenges, is taking actions with the purpose of generating positive impacts on people's well-being and on the company's results. Based on this, psychological empowerment, an intrinsic motivational construct (Spreitzer, 2007), takes a relevant role together with work engagement, considered as a positive state at work (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2010) based on the DRL Model for its development. The present study aims to identify the relationship between psychological empowerment and work engagement in employees of private companies. A systematic search review was carried out based on the PRISMA guide (Urrútia & Bonfill, 2010) in the Scopus, EBSCOhost, Proquest and ScienceDirect databases. Nine studies that met the determined criteria were analyzed. The results indicated that there is a direct positive relationship between both variables, as well as, base...