The effect of genuine leadership on employee empowerment through the mediating role of organizational voice and organizational justice
Subject Areas : OthersReza Bahrami 1 , Saeid Sadeghi Brojerdi 2 , Reza Sabonchi 3
1 - PhD student in Sports Management, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran
2 - Professor of Sports Management, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Iran
3 - Associate Professor of Sports Management, Borujard Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujard, Iran
Keywords: Organizational Justice, Genuine Leadership, organizational voice, Employee Empowerment,
Abstract :
This study was conducted with the aim of the effect of genuine leadership on employee empowerment through the mediating role of organizational voice and organizational justice. It is worth mentioning that this study was descriptive and correlational studies. The statistical population of the present study was 885 employees of all sports and youth departments in the west of the country. Finally, 370 people were selected as a simple random sample. The research instruments were four questionnaires: Valomba et al. (2000), Spritzer Employee Empowerment (1995), Hams Organizational Voice (2009) and Morman and Nihoff (1993) Organizational Justice. The face and content validity of the research instrument was confirmed by a group of expert professors and its structural validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis based on structural equation modeling. The reliability of the questionnaires was also reported using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. For data analysis from SPSS software, SPSS. Sample Power and Smart PLS was used. The results showed that organizational voice has a positive and significant effect on empowerment. Genuine leadership has a positive and significant effect on organizational voice, empowerment and organizational justice. Organizational justice has a positive and significant effect on empowerment. Genuine leadership also has a positive and significant effect on empowerment through organizational voice. Finally, the results showed that genuine leadership has a positive and significant effect on empowerment through organizational justice.
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