Investigation of the effect of transformational leadership on the Public Service Motivation (Case Study: Municipality of 4th region of Mashhad)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on the motivation of public services. The statistical population of the research is all employees of district 4 of Mashhad municipality. Using a Morgan table, 127 students were selected as the statistical sample. The questionnaire was randomly distributed among them. In this research, the Transformation Leadership Questionnaire (AWF) and Alois (2000) and Perry and Wise Public Service Motivation Questionnaire (1997) were used. This research was a descriptive-correlational study. The reliability of the questionnaires was obtained using Cronbach's alpha coefficient greater than 0.7, which can be said that the instrument has an appropriate reliability. In this research, descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. In the test section, the hypothesis of the research was utilized by using the smart PLS software using partial least squares method. The results showed that transformational leadership positively affects the motivation of public services.