A study of the effect of authentic leadership style on innovative organizational climate through employee empowerment in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Authentic Leadership is introduced as a model of leadership behavior that promotes psychological capacities and the ethical atmosphere of positivism in order to create positive emotions for people about their job and through empowering individuals, enhance organizational innovative climate. The purpose of this research was to study the effect of authentic leadership style on innovative organizational climate through employee empowerment in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The research method was a survey in 2016-2017. The statistical population of the research, the staff of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, were 1980. Sampling was simple random. According to Morgan's table, 377 people were sampled and 348 questionnaires were finally analyzed. For collecting information, Walumbwa authentic leadership questionnaire (2008), Spreitzer and Mishra empowerment questionnaire (1997) and innovative organizational climate questionnaire of Siegel & Kaemmerer (1978) were used. To analyze data, PLS 3.2 software was used. Employee empowerment play a minor role in the relationship between authentic leadership style and innovative organizational climate and the research hypothesis was confirmed. That is, the authentic leadership style through empowerment of employees has an effect on the innovative organizational climate of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Managers of organizations, with the adoption of authentic leadership style, can play a role in empowering employees and, through empowerment, create an innovative climate for achieving the goals of the organization and gaining competitive advantage among their peers.