Investigating the effective factors on productivity: The effect of empowering leadership on achievement motivation, inspirational motivation and mental persuasion

Abstract

The leadership style and motive have been considered as effectivefactors in different models. In order to increase the productivity itseffective factors should be known. The aim of this paper was toinvestigate investigate the effect of empowering leadership onachievement motivation, inspiring motivation and mental persuasion.The Statistical population included 444 personnels in Gas Company inKhorasan Razavi province. Using Morgan’s table the sample size was206 people. The research method was descriptive survey and samplingmethod was probability. To gather the data two standard questionnaires(Ahearne & Avolio) were used. Ranjbarian’s researcher’s madequestionnaire was used for achievement motivation. The reability wereobtained through Cronbach’s alpha were 0.99, 0.90, 0.84 and 0.87respectively. To analyse the data lisrel software was used. The resultsshowed that in the the first model, empowering leadership had an affecton mental persuasion, inspring motivation, and achievement motivationof personnels, and in the second model, inspring motivation hadmodified role on empowering leadership and achievement motivation,but not on the mental persuasion.

Keywords

• empowering leadership
• achievement motivation
• inspring motivation
• mental persuasion
• productivity