Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.

In this technologically developed scenario, many organizations in developing countries including Pakistan have expanded the enthusiasm for understanding and creating an encouraging administrative and managerial environment. Numerous organizations are struggling for structural changes by deserting th...

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Autores principales: Qaiser Suleman, Makhdoom Ali Syed, Saqib Shehzad, Ishtiaq Hussain, Alam Zeb Khattak, Irfan Ullah Khan, Muhammad Amjid, Iqleem Khan
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ab0791808f4240b7862880671aa2f9ae2021-12-02T20:06:40ZLeadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0254576https://doaj.org/article/ab0791808f4240b7862880671aa2f9ae2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254576https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203In this technologically developed scenario, many organizations in developing countries including Pakistan have expanded the enthusiasm for understanding and creating an encouraging administrative and managerial environment. Numerous organizations are struggling for structural changes by deserting the old-fashioned organizational management style and implementing an empowering leadership where leaders give more authority to subordinates in decision making and responsibilities with the aim to increase organizational productivity. Therefore, the study examined the leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being of the educational institutions at secondary level in Kohat Division, Pakistan. A total sample of 564 secondary school teachers (male n = 379; female n = 185) was carefully chosen through a stratified random sampling technique. In this study, a non-experimental predictive correlational design was adopted. In order to collect data from the participants, two different standardized research tools i.e., the Leader Empowering Behaviour Questionnaire and Ryff's Psychological Well-being Scale were used. After the collection of data, it was analyzed on the basis of mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product-moment correlation, and multiple linear regression model. In conclusion, the study confirmed a significant positive correlation between leadership empowering behaviour and employees' psychological well-being. Leadership empowering behaviours predict employees' psychological well-being positively. Therefore, it was recommended that empowering behaviour might be adopted by the school leaders to improve the employees' psychological well-being for better organizational productivity.Qaiser SulemanMakhdoom Ali SyedSaqib ShehzadIshtiaq HussainAlam Zeb KhattakIrfan Ullah KhanMuhammad AmjidIqleem KhanPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0254576 (2021)
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Qaiser Suleman
Makhdoom Ali Syed
Saqib Shehzad
Ishtiaq Hussain
Alam Zeb Khattak
Irfan Ullah Khan
Muhammad Amjid
Iqleem Khan
Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.
description In this technologically developed scenario, many organizations in developing countries including Pakistan have expanded the enthusiasm for understanding and creating an encouraging administrative and managerial environment. Numerous organizations are struggling for structural changes by deserting the old-fashioned organizational management style and implementing an empowering leadership where leaders give more authority to subordinates in decision making and responsibilities with the aim to increase organizational productivity. Therefore, the study examined the leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being of the educational institutions at secondary level in Kohat Division, Pakistan. A total sample of 564 secondary school teachers (male n = 379; female n = 185) was carefully chosen through a stratified random sampling technique. In this study, a non-experimental predictive correlational design was adopted. In order to collect data from the participants, two different standardized research tools i.e., the Leader Empowering Behaviour Questionnaire and Ryff's Psychological Well-being Scale were used. After the collection of data, it was analyzed on the basis of mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product-moment correlation, and multiple linear regression model. In conclusion, the study confirmed a significant positive correlation between leadership empowering behaviour and employees' psychological well-being. Leadership empowering behaviours predict employees' psychological well-being positively. Therefore, it was recommended that empowering behaviour might be adopted by the school leaders to improve the employees' psychological well-being for better organizational productivity.
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author Qaiser Suleman
Makhdoom Ali Syed
Saqib Shehzad
Ishtiaq Hussain
Alam Zeb Khattak
Irfan Ullah Khan
Muhammad Amjid
Iqleem Khan
author_facet Qaiser Suleman
Makhdoom Ali Syed
Saqib Shehzad
Ishtiaq Hussain
Alam Zeb Khattak
Irfan Ullah Khan
Muhammad Amjid
Iqleem Khan
author_sort Qaiser Suleman
title Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.
title_short Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.
title_full Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.
title_fullStr Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.
title_full_unstemmed Leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: Evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in Kohat Division, Pakistan.
title_sort leadership empowering behaviour as a predictor of employees' psychological well-being: evidence from a cross-sectional study among secondary school teachers in kohat division, pakistan.
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