The effect of leadership empowerment on the innovative behavior of employees and professional learning communities with the mediating role of psychological empowerment among nurses of Imam Khomeini Hospital (RA)

empowering leadership is one of the most important issues in organizations and departments today. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship of leadership empowerment on the innovative behavior of employees and professional learning communities through the intermediary variable of psychological empowerment of nurses.

The descriptive research method is correlational. The statistical population consisted of nurses working in Imam Khomeini (RA) hospital in Urmia, and 310 of the 1500 employees were selected by stratified sampling. In order to collect information, questionnaires of Zang and Bartol's leadership empowerment (2010), Kanter's employees' innovative behavior (1988), Lee et al.'s professional learning communities (2011), Spriters and Mishra's psychological empowerment (1995) were collected. Exploratory factor analysis was used to check the validity of the research and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to check the reliability of the research. The research data were analyzed using the structural equation modeling method and using spss26 and Pls3 Smart software.

The findings showed an acceptable correlation between all research variables and research hypotheses in the analyzed paths show that there is an indirect relationship between leadership empowerment and innovative behavior of employees and β=0.052. Also, there is an indirect relationship between leadership empowerment and professional learning communities. There is an indirect relationship (β=0.012). There is a causal and positive relationship between leadership empowerment and psychological empowerment (β=0.36). Psychological empowerment and innovative behavior of employees (β=0.58) There is a causal and positive relationship between psychological empowerment and professional learning communities (β = 0.36). Therefore, there is a mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between leadership empowerment and innovative behavior of employees and professional learning communities in The model is confirmed.