Studying the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment in the Effect of Positive Leadership On Organizational Trust (Studied Case: Teachers of Kashan Schools)

Organizational trust is a valuable capital that recognizing its precedents and the way of developing it can facilitate collaboration and collective efforts to improve organizational productivity. This research investigates the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the effect of positive leadership on organizational trust.

This research is applied, descriptive-correlation and quantitative. Its statistical population consists of school teachers in Kashan, among whom 328 persons were randomly selected as a statistical sample. The required data were collected by a questionnaire and analyzed through SPSS and Amos softwares at both descriptive and inferential levels.

Positive leadership has had a positive and significant effect on organizational trust, both directly and through psychological empowerment. Also, the existing situation of all of these three variables in the study were higher than average.

Organizational leaders can strengthen the positive attitudes of employees to their role in the organization by promoting positive human relations, positive communication, meaning-orienting and positive climate in their organizations and thus develop organizational trust.