The Role of Spiritual Leadership in Empowering the Employees of Qazvin Water and Power Organization

摘要

Spiritual leadership is one of the new styles of leadership that seeks to give meaning to the staff’s activities due to the deep internal values of individuals and organization. Researches show the effect of this style on employee empowerment. Accordingly, present study has investigated the relation between spiritual leadership and employee empowerment in Water and Power Qazvin organization. In a form of survey, a sample with 291 members from the target population sample with 1200 employees of Qazvin Water and Power organization were selected and two questionnaires of spiritual leadership and empowerment were distributed among them and data were analyzed. These findings of these researches demonstrated that spiritual leadership (vision, faith, love to altruism, significance membership, organizational commitment and performance feedback) have a positive and significant relation with empowerment of the staffs of Qazvin’s power and water organization. Also, the regression results showed that the components of organizational commitment, significance and vison have the most effect of empowerment variable, respectively.