The Mediatory role of Psychological Empowerment in Explaining Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Job Engagement

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between Transformational leadership and job engagement by mediating role of psychological empowerment. Concerning it’s purpose, the study is practical and considerate the data collection procedure it is a descriptive correlation study. The population of the study includes all Kurdistan Province Education Office staff (200 subjects) which samples of 127 subjects were chosen through simple random sampling procedure. The instruments used were the Transformational Leadership Questionnaire, Psychological Empowerment questionnaire and Job Engagement Questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the questionnaires were verified using expert judgment and Alfa – Cronbach. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, one sample t test, multiple and simple linear regression, and path analysis. The results revealed that dimensions Transformational leadership impact on job engagement. Results also showed that psychological empowerment can played role of mediator in create or increase the relationship between the components of transformational leadership and job engagement.