A Survey on the Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Employee's Empowerment in Birjand Kavir Tire Company

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ empowerment in Birjand Kavir Tire Company. The research method was descriptive - correlation and due the nature of this study, data collection process was done based on library and field study. All of Birjand Kavir Tire Company employees were the research population from which 133 employees (male and female) were selected based on random sampling method. Data was collected through two questionnaires consisted of four categories underling the structure of the 20 items for measuring transformational leadership (TL) and four categories with 12 items for measuring employees’ empowerment. Alpha reliability coefficients for TL and empowerment are 0.87 and 0.75 respectively. Data was done in inferential level statistics approaches (Pearson correlation, t test, ANOVA and stepwise regression technique). The findings showed that there was a positive relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ empowerment and its components (i.e., self - determination, meaning, impact, and competence). The findings also showed that there was a positive relationship between all components of transformational leadership (i.e., Inspirational Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation, and Individualized Consideration) and employees’ empowerment. Regression results show that transformational leadership’s components as individualized consideration, inspirational motivation and idealized influences can predict employees’ empowerment in Birjand Kavir Tire Co. The t test result showed that there was no significant difference between males and females’ empowerment. The ANOVA test result indicated that there was no significant difference among levels of education regard to empowerment.