The Relationship between Authentic Leadership and Job Performance: The Mediation Role of Psychological Empowerment among Staff in Ahvaz Hospitals

The success and failure of an organization depends on the employees’ job performance. From the social point of view, each person's best desire for organizations is to have employees who do their job well. Good performance will increase the productivity of the organization, which will also directly improve the services of organizations and promote the development of the national economy. This research was a cross-sectional, descriptive-correlation study in which Structural Equation Modeling Analysis was utilized with the help of SmartPlus software. Considering the fact that in this research, three standard 5-point Likert scale questionnaires were used for collecting the data in the field, this survey is a survey. The statistical sample of this study consisted of 341 personnel employed in Ahwaz city hospitals in 2017. These samples were classified using random sampling method and Cochran formula was used to analyze the data. The results of this study showed that there was a direct and meaningful relationship with the value of 0.395 at 1% error level between original leadership and job performance among statistical samples of this research. Furthermore, the results of the effect of the mediation of psychological empowerment on the relationship between authentic leadership and job performance, and between psychological empowerment and job performance was found to be 53% at the error level of 1% in the statistical population of this study. The authentic leadership feature enhances the psychological empowerment of the staff, ensuring the basic needs and satisfaction of the employees, and the greater utilization of human capital. Concerns about the achievement of organizational goals and values for hospital staff, coupled with the genuineness of leadership, will enable them to enjoy their job and to showcase their self-esteem, which eventually will promote job performance and productivity of the organization.