Vol: 11, Issue: 3 2021

Page: 154-182

The Effect of Empowering Leadership Behaviors on Workforce Agility: The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment (An Analytical Study of the Opinions of Teachers in the Private Schools of Diwaniyah Governorate Center)

Shayma Saed Al-Ganemi, Prof Dr Ihsaan Dahash Chalab

Received Date: 2021-07-10

Accepted Date: 2021-08-22

Published Date: 2021-08-27

The current study aimed to test the effect of the mediating role of psychological empowerment, expressed as (Resilience, adaptation, and proactivity) between empowering leadership behaviors (leading by example, Participative decision making, training, information exchange, Showing concerning) and workers agility(meaning, competence, impact) in the private schools in Al-Diwaniyah Governorate, and the problem was summarized by a set of questions based on the researcher’s perceptions, the most important of which resulted in the statement of the effect exerted by psychological empowerment in explaining the relationship between empowering leadership behaviors and Workforce agility, and in order to achieve the objectives of the study, a hypothetical scheme was designed that embodies the nature of the relationship Among the variables involved in the study, a set of hypotheses were built aimed at identifying the level of the relationship between empowering leadership behaviors, Workforce agility and psychological empowerment among private schools in Al-Diwaniyah Governorate. the study sample was (273) Teaching, and the study used a set of statistical programs represented in (SPSS.V.26 & AMOS.V.26) . The results that the study aspires to answer, using several statistical methods, especially in (path analysis, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, relative importance, coefficient of variation, and t-test). Finally, the study reached a set of conclusions, perhaps the most important of which is psychological empowerment that partially mediates to impact the relationship between the variable of empowering leadership behaviors and Workforce agility.

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