hamid karimi; zeynab hallaj; naser valizadeh
Volume 5, Issue 1 , March 2019, , Pages 79-102
Abstract
Application of leadership styles in accordance to the employees' characteristics can have an impressive impact on their psychological empowerment. The main purpose of the present research was to investigate analyses the relationship among leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) ...
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Application of leadership styles in accordance to the employees' characteristics can have an impressive impact on their psychological empowerment. The main purpose of the present research was to investigate analyses the relationship among leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) with psychological empowerment of employees. The statistical population of this study was included 1418 no's of Agricultural Jihad Organization experts in Kerman Province which 306 experts were selected as a sample using Krejcie and Morgan sample size table and stratified random sampling method. The research tool was a questionnaire. This study is an applied research which was carried out using survey technique. The data were analyzed using SPSS22 statistical package. The results revealed that transformational and transactional leadership styles positively and significantly impacted the mental empowerment of agricultural experts. While, the laissez-faire leadership style had negative and significant impact on experts mental empowerment. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that three leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) can account for 60.6 percent of variance in mental empowerment of Agricultural Jihad Organization experts in Kerman Province.