Influence of transformational leadership on employees outcomes: Mediating role of empowerment

The purpose of the study is to find the relationship of transformational leadership with organizational commitment and innovativeness, and to know if empowerment mediates the relationship between the transformational leadership, the organizational commitment, and the innovativeness. It was hypothesized that transformational leadership is positively related with organizational commitment, innovativeness, and empowerment. Empowerment tends to mediate the relationship between transformational leadership, organizational commitment and innovativeness. The data was collected through questionnaire from different organizations of telecom sector. The analysis of the study supported all research hypotheses that there is a significantly positive relationship between transformational leadership, organizational commitment, innovativeness and empowerment. The results of the study also support the mediating impact of empowerment between transformational leadership and organizational commitment and innovativeness.