The effect of genuine leadership on employee empowerment through the mediating role of organizational voice and organizational justice

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of succession planning on employee empowerment through the mediating role of organizational voice. It is worth mentioning that this research was descriptive and correlational studies. The statistical population of the present study was885 employees of all sports and youth departments in the west of the country. Finally, 370 people were selected as a simple random sample. The research instruments were three questionnaires: Rothwell (2002), Spritzer (1995) and Hams (2009). The face and content validity of the research instrument was confirmed by a group of expert professors and its construct validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis based on structural equation model. The reliability of the questionnaires was also reported using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. To analyze the data from SPSS software, SPSS Sample Power and Smart PLS. was used. The results showed that organizational voice has a positive and significant effect on empowerment. The results also showed that succession has a positive and significant effect on organizational voice and empowerment. Finally, the results showed that substitution has a positive and significant effect on empowerment through organizational voice it can be said that strengthening succession planning in sports and youth departments in the west of the country has an indirect effect on organizational voice and helps its growth.