Public Management
Manijeh Ahmadi; Saeid Abdolmaleki; Mansoor Aghakhani
Abstract
The present research aimed to explain the mediating effect of empowerment in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee satisfaction in Iran Khodro Diesel Company. The method was quantitative and practical in terms of purpose, descriptive survey in terms of nature, and correlation ...
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The present research aimed to explain the mediating effect of empowerment in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee satisfaction in Iran Khodro Diesel Company. The method was quantitative and practical in terms of purpose, descriptive survey in terms of nature, and correlation and path analysis in terms of implementation. Statistical society includes all supervisors of Iran Khodro Diesel Company, numbering 150 people, and due to its small size, all members were selected as a sample using the whole number method. The research tools were the questionnaire of empowerment (Laschinger et al., 2001), transformational leadership (Bass and Auliou, 2004), and job satisfaction (Hackman and Oldham, 1976) which their validity was checked and verified by formal and content methods and their reliability was obtained through Cronbach's Alpha (0.81). The data were analyzed in the descriptive and inferential sections. The results showed that transformational leadership has a positive and significant effect on empowerment (effect coefficient 0.77), empowerment on employees’ job satisfaction (effect coefficient 0.67), and transformational leadership on employees’ job satisfaction (effect coefficient 0.66). The effect of transformational leadership on the empowerment and employees’ job satisfaction shows that managers of Iran Khodro Diesel Company should pay attention to the topic of transformational leadership, empowerment, and their components by knowing the importance of each of the above variables; take more effective steps to improve the employees’ job satisfaction of and create the conditions for improving the quality of products and increasing customer’s satisfaction favorably.
