scholarly journals An Investigation of the Relationship between School Principals' Empowering Leadership Style and Teachers’ Job Satisfaction: The Role of Trust and Psychological Empowerment

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Servet ATIK ◽  
Osman Tayyar CELIK
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

School leadership, teacher’s psychological empowerment and work-related outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1501-1514
Author(s):  
Kersti Kõiv ◽  
Kadi Liik ◽  
Mati Heidmets
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
School Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Perceived Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of teacher’s psychological empowerment between school leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Design/methodology/approach A total of 711 teachers from 31 Estonian schools were surveyed with a questionnaire measuring four dimensions of psychological empowerment (competence, meaning, self-determination and impact), school leadership characteristics (leadership style, leader’s empowering behavior and trust in leader) and teacher’s work-related outcomes (job satisfaction and workplace attachment). AMOS path analysis was used to investigate the direct and indirect relations between the teachers’ perceptions of school leadership, their psychological empowerment and their workplace attachment and job satisfaction. Findings This study found that psychological empowerment (subscales meaning and impact) mediates the relationship between perceived leadership empowerment behavior and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Also, the psychological empowerment (meaning and impact) mediates the relationship between perceived leadership style and teachers’ work-related outcomes. Trust in the principal has direct and indirect effect (through psychological empowerment) on job satisfaction, whereas there only seems to be indirect effect on workplace attachment through two components of psychological empowerment. Practical implications The mediating role of psychological empowerment includes an important message for school principals – in order to empower employees it is not sufficient to merely delegate formal power and decision-making rights. To facilitate the development of psychological empowerment, it is important to provide employees with an opportunity to experience agency, to experience that their voice and opinions are taken into account (perceived impact) and the purpose and targets of the whole organization are discussed with the employees and formulated in collaboration with them (perceived meaning). Originality/value Psychological empowerment as a mediating variable has not been widely researched, especially in school environment. The results will provide important signals for school principals, where and how to find leverage to improve teachers’ job satisfaction and workplace attachment.

Influence of leadership style on job satisfaction of NGO employee: The mediating role of psychological empowerment

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mishal Mufti ◽  
Peng Xiaobao ◽  
Syed Jamal Shah ◽  
Asma Sarwar ◽  
Yuan Zhenqing
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Mediating Role

scholarly journals Linking Empowering Leadership, Psychological Empowerment, Self-Leadership, Creative Involvement and Creativity: A Sequential Mediation Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Ishfaq Ahmed ◽  
Muhammad Khalid Khan ◽  
Ghulam Ali Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between empowering leadership and employee creativity through the serial mediating role of psychological empowerment and self-leadership with creative work involvement. Applying a chain mediation approach to a sample of 314 respondents, we find that empowering leadership has a significant effect on the selected mediators (self-leadership, psychological empowerment and creative work involvement), which in turn transfer this effect to employee creativity.

scholarly journals Organizational Culture, Communication and Leadership Style on Job Satisfaction

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Anak Agung Ngurah Gede Sadiartha ◽  
Sunday Ade Sitorus
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Multiple Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Subject

This research aims to investigate the effect of the role of organizational culture, communication and leadership style on job satisfaction. The object of this research is Senior High Schools (SMA)/Vocational Secondary School (SMK)/MAN, while the subject are 55 School Principals. Four variables from the research data were gathered through instruments in the form valid and reliable questionnaires. Statistical Analysis of the research data used multiple linear regression analysis with the significance in accordance with the output of SPSS 22.0. Findings indicated that organizational culture has an effect but not significant on job satisfaction, while communication has a significant effect on job satisfaction, and leadership style has a significant effect on job satisfaction, variable of organizational culture, communication and leadership style has a significant effect on job satisfaction

Does emotional intelligence and empowering leadership affect psychological empowerment and work engagement?

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 971-991
Author(s):  
Saad M. Alotaibi ◽  
Muslim Amin ◽  
Jonathan Winterton
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe objective of this study is to investigate the role of emotional intelligence and empowering leadership in enhancing psychological empowerment and work engagement in private hospitals.Design/methodology/approachA total of 500 questionnaires were distributed to staff nurses at five private hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 100 questionnaires to each hospital, with an achieved response rate of 34.8%.FindingsThe results show statistically significant positive relationships between emotional intelligence, empowering leadership, psychological empowerment and work engagement. The relationship between emotional intelligence and work engagement and psychological empowerment and work engagement were not significant.Research limitations/implicationsThe study found that employees who have a high level of emotional intelligence and the positive stimulus of empowering leadership demonstrate enhanced psychological empowerment and work engagement.Practical implicationsA better understanding of the role of EI and EL in enhancing psychological empowerment and work engagement could help hospitals reduce turnover among nurses and improve their relationships with patients, as well as maintaining competitive advantage.Originality/valueThe study provides evidence to support the effect of EI on empowering leadership, psychological empowerment and work engagement in private hospitals.

scholarly journals Nurturing individual job performance through psychological capital power

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Gus Andri ◽  
Wiwiek Rabiatul Adawiyah ◽  
Ratno Purnomo ◽  
Yuni Candra
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
The Relationship

The overarching objectives of this inquiry are twofold: first, to investigate the relationship between proactive personality, empowering leadership, and individual job performance; second, to examine the mediating role of psychological capital on the relationship between empowering leadership and an individual's job performance. The sample consists of 215 entrepreneurs of Minang migrants in Purwokerto-Central Java, Indonesia. The Minangnese is an ethnic group in Indonesia with a high success rate of entrepreneurs, and hence there is a stigma in the society that the Minang tribe was born to be entrepreneurs. Despite the abundant literature on entrepreneurship, few have focused on the leadership style of specific ethnicities in doing business. The burgeoning popularity of entrepreneurship theory has attracted academic attention. Scholars attempt to enhance the entrepreneurship literature from various perspectives, one of which is a cultural value. Moreover, little discussion on the role of psychological capital in nurturing individual job performance is the primary motive behind the study. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analysis with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results proactive personality positively influences empowering leadership. Likewise, empowering leadership determines both psychological capital and individual job performance. The study also supported the view that psychological capital mediates the relationship between empowering leadership and individual performance. The theoretical implication of this research is that psychological capital is important in building individual characters who respond to difficult conditions, so that psychological capital is a competency in improving individual performance.

The relationship between leadership style and the success of Lean management implementation

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 807-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Maria da Costa Nogueira ◽  
Paulo S.A. Sousa ◽  
Maria R.A. Moreira
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Intellectual Stimulation ◽  
Lean Management ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand the role that leadership plays in the success of Lean management (LM) implementation, by trying to identify what is the impact of the transactional, transformational, directive and empowering leadership styles on the success of such an implementation in Portuguese companies, and what are the most important leaders’ attributes. Design/methodology/approach An on-line questionnaire was distributed to 65 manufacturing and services Portuguese organizations that have implemented LM. Findings The results suggest that the empowering leadership style has a positive impact on the success of LM implementation. Even though results do not allow concluding about the impact of the other styles, several leader’s attributes were identified as having influence: individualized consideration, information sharing, skill development, intellectual stimulation, assigned goals and self-directed decision making. Originality/value Very few studies have addressed the role of leadership in the success of adopting LM and, to the best knowledge, only one paper studied the critical attributes of leaders in LM implementation. Moreover, the present study focuses in Portugal, country where this topic has rarely been investigated.

scholarly journals On the Link between Transformational Leadership and Employees’ Work Engagement: The Role of Psychological Empowerment

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-73
Author(s):  
Raluca Duțu ◽  
Andreea Butucescu
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Motivational Process ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style ◽  
The Relationship

The results of previous studies have consistently supported the relationship between transformational leadership style and work engagement, yet the focus is now on the explanatory mechanisms. This study aims to investigate whether psychological empowerment could be a potential mediator of the relationship between the two constructs. Featuring new knowledge reported in the literature, a non-experimental, cross-sectional study based on a sampleof 174 participants from different industries was conducted. The results of the statistical analysis showed that transformational leadership style is a significant predictor of engagement.Moreover, psychological empowerment partly mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ work engagement. These findings reiterate both the importance and the efficiency of the transformational leader in relation to the positive outcomes of the subordinates.Also, it highlights a potential motivational process that underpins these results.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment in the Relationship between the Empowering Leadership Behavior and Work Engagement: A Study Applied on the Cement Sector in Upper Egypt

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel R. M. Rayan ◽  
Ahmed S. M. Sebaie ◽  
Nagwa A. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Data ◽  
Cement Industry ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to test the relationship between perceived empowering leadership behavior and the work engagement. Also, the mediating role of psychological empowerment in this relation has been examined. The study applied on a sample of 360 employees at the Egyptian cement industry in Upper Egypt. Data was collected using work engagement questionnaire based on the Schaufeli, Salanova, González-Romá, and Bakker (2002) scale. The current study used the scale of the Zhang & Bartol study (2010), prepared by Ahearne et al., (2005) to measure the empowering leadership behaviors. Psychological empowerment has been measured using Spreitzer (1995) and Zhung and Bartol (2010). The study was conducted using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program in data processing for AMOS to test the quality of compatibility between the collected data and the theoretical data, and the structural model to test the study hypotheses. The results did not support the direct relationship between leadership empowered behavior and work engagement. The empowering leadership behavior is positively affecting the psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment was found to be positively affecting work engagement. However, the psychological empowerment was found to be mediating the relationship between the two variables. The study reached some conclusions related to this relationship and how to have it enhanced in the Cement industry in Upper Egypt.

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