Gholamreza Shahbazi
Habib Mollabahrami

This study investigates the impact of transformational leadership on empowerment and employees organizational commitment; in addition, it aims to investigate the effect of empowerment on the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational leadership. Data was gathered by a questionnaire given to 189 clerks of Bank Melli Iran using cluster sampling. SPSS and Amos software, One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, and Spearman Rank Correlation Test, were the instruments used in order to examine this relationship; this study is based on Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. The results of Spearman rank correlation test and standard estimates of structural equation model revealed transformational leadership has a positive and meaningful impact on both empowerment and organizational commitment; the results also indicated that empowerment has a positive and meaningful relationship with organizational commitment and affects it. The main result of this study is that empowerment affects the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment.

Transformational Leadership, Empowerment, Organizational Commitment