The Effect of Moral Leadership on Employees' Psychological Empowerment with Regard to Mediating Role of Employees Perceived Justice (case study: employees of Isfahan university)

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

Enayatollah  Najibzadeh ¹ (Assistant Professor of Business Management, Payame Noor University, Iran)
Hamid Reza  Boustani ² (PhD Student of Behavioral Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran)
Hamed  derakhshideh ³ (PhD Student of Strategic Management, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2016-05-29 Accepted : 2016-07-26 Published : 2016-08-22

Keywords: Psychological empowerment, Ethical leadership, distributive justice, Procedural Justice, interactional justice,

Abstract :

The aim of this study is investigate the effect of moral leadership on employees' psychological empowerment through the impact of organizational justice among employees of Isfahan University. In this research, moral leadership is as the independent variable, psychological empowerment is as the dependent variable and dimensions of organizational justice is as a mediator. Questionnaire reliability was confirmed by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, content validity was confirmed by using the experts familiar with the research subject and its construct validity was confirmed by using the structural equation modeling. Statistical population in this study includes all employees of Isfahan University. Data collection was conducted by random sampling. After extracting the data related to mentioned group responses and pre-estimate, variance of statistical sample size was estimated 220 people by using the Cochran formula randomly. Also, to determine the correlation and data analysis has been used the SPSS and PLS software. The results of the data analysis leads to confirm the all of research hypotheses: Ethical leadership have a significant and positive effect on psychological empowerment; ethical leadership have a significant and positive effect on distributive justice; Ethical leadership have a significant and positive effect on procedural justice; ethical leadership have a significant and positive effect on interactional justice; distributive justice have a significant and positive effect on psychological empowerment; procedural justice have a significant and positive effect on psychological empowerment; interactional justice have a significant and positive effect on psychological empowerment.

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