The effect of transformational leadership on job performance of faculty members with job involvement mediation

The main objective of present study is to provide applicable measures for betterment the job performance of faculty members, based on transformational leadership and job performance. With respect of objectives, this study is the applied research and with respect of methodology, is a correlation-descriptive one. In this paper, Firstly, the theoretical model and research hypotheses have been developed, and then by using structural equation modeling (SME), research hypotheses were examined. The statistical population of this study consisted of all faculty members of a military university which 210 person of them have been selected randomly via Morgan table. Research data were collected via questionnaires. For measuring job involvement Kanungo (1982) with 10 items, job performance form Paterson (1970) with 15 items and finally transformational leadership measured by Bass and Avoilo (2006)   questionnaire have been used. Reliability of research tools have been investigated by Cronbach’s alpha. Validity of them have been test by content and--.  Research finding indicated that all hypotheses were verified then: transformational leadership has positive effect on faculty member’s job performance and the role of job involvement as a moderator between transformational leadership and job performance was verified. In the other word, regression analysis shows that grower supporting component of transformational leadership has maximum effect on job performance.