The relationship between transformational leadership style and self-employees

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Seyedeh Liyla Hoseini Tabaghdehi ¹ , Javad Khalatbari ²

1 - Department of psychology, Islamic Azad University of Ramsar, Ramsar, Iran
2 - Assistant professor, Department of psychology, Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon, Tonekabon, Iran

Received: 2012-03-05 Accepted : 2012-05-09 Published : 2012-08-22

Keywords: self-efficacy, Transformational Leadership, Psychological empowerment, individual consideration, intellectual stimulation,

Abstract :

                The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between transformational leadership styles with self-efficacy of employees in the Islamic Azad universities, Mazandaran Province. The research is a descriptive correlation study. The statistical community is all employees in Islamic Azad universities in five cities of Mazandaran province include Tonekabon, Chlos, Sari, Neka, Behshahr are the number of 829 peoples. The statistical random sampling method of this research is based on Morgan’s table and the number of 256 people was determined. For collecting data and needed information, the library and field method were used. Data collection tools and informational in this study is two questionnaires: spritzer s,     psychological empowerment questionnaire (1995) and Bass and Avolio, s transformational leadership questionnaire ((2000). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. Result showed that there is the positive relationship between self-efficacy and transformational leadership style (p<0/01). In addition, regression analysis showed that the predictor variables, Idealized influence is the most important role in predicting self-efficacy (p<0/01).