چکیده:
Background and Objective: The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of transformational leadership on the psychological empowerment of employees of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade and its affiliated organizations in Tehran. To this end, theoretical foundations and research literature were reviewed, and the theoretical framework and conceptual model of the research were formed. Methodology: Given the nature of the research, the research method was descriptive-survey and is applied in terms of objective. To conduct the research, 196 employees of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade and its affiliated organizations in Tehran were selected using simple random sampling. To collect data, a questionnaire for transformational leadership and psychological empowerment was designed by the researcher. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaires was estimated at 0.92 and 0.86, respectively. Data analysis was performed at two levels, descriptive and inferential statistics, through SPSS and LISREL software. Findings: The results of the data analysis showed that the model fits the data of this research, and the direct impact of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration on the psychological empowerment of employees was confirmed. The variable of individualized consideration has the greatest direct effect on the psychological empowerment of employees compared to other variables examined in the model. Conclusion: Utilizing the results obtained from this research and strengthening the variables of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and especially individualized consideration, can be useful in promoting the psychological empowerment of employees.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Findings: The results of the data analysis showed that the model fits the data of this research and the direct effect of idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration on the psychological empowerment of employees was confirmed.
On the other hand, the researcher's observations and studies show that the psychological empowerment status of employees is also not at a high level, and there are weaknesses in the methods of strengthening this important skill, where the lack of attention to transformational leadership is one of the most important problems in the field of empowerment in that organization; because currently, the most discussed topic in implementing empowerment actions and shaping new leadership roles is the use of the empowerment approach ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 1.
20) states that a transformational leader makes followers aware of the importance of specific goals and guides them toward higher expectations of themselves; this work leads to classifying organizational profit in a higher rank relative to their own interests and benefits, creating motivation in finding a sense of need for success, and ultimately leads to their growth and self-actualization (Bass, 1985; Bass and Avolio, 1993; Gebert et al.
(1991) and Spreitzer (1994)] Based on the theoretical framework and the conceptual model of the research, the research hypothesis was formulated as follows: Main hypothesis: Transformational leadership has an effect on the psychological empowerment of the employees of the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade and its affiliated organizations in Tehran.
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