Meta-Analysis of the Influence of Transformational Leadership on Employee's Psychological Empowerment in Iran

INTRODUCTIONAmong all the studies done on leadership, transformational leadership has been given more attention. Due to various studies accomplished regarding transformational leadership and its effect on employee's psychological empowerment and facing kind of dispersed information in this context, doing combinational studies, which would provide researchers with the extract of current studies related to this subject in a scientific and systematic way, is of high importance.
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKBecause this study is a meta-analysis, the theoretical framework of the present body of research is based on all the studies related to and done on transformational leadership and psychological empowerment in Iran's organizations and the results have also been published in Iran.
METHODOLOGYThis study reviews and discusses eleven studies done in this area aiming at merging quantitative results of studies regarding the influence of transformational leadership on employees’ psychological empowerment in Iran using meta-analysis method and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software (CMA2).
RESULTS & DISCUSSIONThe results of meta-analysis have shown that the influence of transformational leadership on employees’ psychological empowerment is above average with an effect-size of 0.6. Likewise, among all aspects of transformational leadership, Individualized Consideration and Idealized Influence with the effect-sizes of 0.547 and 0.452 have the most and the least influence on employee's psychological empowerment in Iran.
CONCLUSIONS & SUGGESTIONSIndividualized considerations have the greatest impact on employee's psychological empowerment in Iran which means that managers need to guide and train their staff and be sensitive to them, and increase and develop their abilities in a systematic process. A transformational leader should plan for the growth of each employee based on his/her characteristics and needs.