The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation and Empowerment in the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Staff Performance

Mehran Bahrami Ziarani¹

1) Mehran Bahrami Ziarani Azad University Of Qazvin

IOI Code : XYGH-BDHGK
Publication : International Conference on Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship(ieconf.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of the present study was to determine the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation and empowerment in the relationship between transformational leadership and staff performance. The present study is practical in terms of objective, descriptive-correlational in terms of information gathering method, and is specifically based on a structural equation modeling. In this research, the study sample consists of 400 member of a large organization in Tehran City, which were selected using a non-random sampling method. The transformational leadership questionnaire, the staff performance questionnaire, the Spreitzer Empowerment Questionnaire, and the Lumpkin & Dess Entrepreneurial Orientation Questionnaire were used to collect data. A structural equation modeling was used to analyze and interpret the research hypotheses in the form of the theoretical model being studied. It is worth mentioning that analyses were done using SPSS and LISREL. The results of this study showed that transformational leadership can both directly and indirectly increase staff performance. On the other hand, entrepreneurial orientation and empowerment directly affect staff performance. In general, it seems that, by creating a space and conditions based on transformation management, transformational leadership prepares the space for empowerment and development of entrepreneurial orientation, and thus increasing staff performance.

Keywords : transformational leadership entrepreneurial orientation empowerment