Investigating the effective factors on productivity: The effect of empowering leadership on achievement motivation, inspirational motivation and mental persuasion

The leadership style and motive have been considered as effective factors in different models. In order to increase the productivity its effective factors should be known. The aim of this paper was to investigate investigate the effect of empowering leadership on achievement motivation, inspiring motivation and mental persuasion. The Statistical population included 444 personnels in Gas Company in Khorasan Razavi province. Using Morgan’s table the sample size was 206 people. The research method was descriptive survey and sampling method was probability. To gather the data two standard questionnaires (Ahearne & Avolio) were used. Ranjbarian’s researcher’s made questionnaire was used for achievement motivation. The reability were obtained through Cronbach’s alpha were 0.99, 0.90, 0.84 and 0.87 respectively. To analyse the data lisrel software was used. The results showed that in the the first model, empowering leadership had an affect on mental persuasion, inspring motivation, and achievement motivation of personnels, and in the second model, inspring motivation had modified role on empowering leadership and achievement motivation,but not on the mental persuasion.