"Transformational Leadership and Employee Empowerment: An Empirical Study of the Attitudes of the Employees of Indian Automobile Sector"

Abstract

The concepts of transformational leadership (TL) and employee empowerment (EE) occupy a prominent place in business world. Past researches signify a positive relationship between these two concepts, as has been studied by various researchers in various sectors. But the current study is only focusing upon relationship between TL&EE in the automobile sector. The population for the study covers middle level employees of automobile sector in Delhi-NCR region. Data were collected from 500 sampled respondents with the help of administering pre-developed structured questionnaires on transformational leadership (MLQ-5X) and employee empowerment (Psychological Empowerment). Non- Parametric tests like one sample sign test, chi-square test and Kruskal-Wallis tests and parametric test like Z test and t-test were applied for analysis. The findings indicate that all the dimensions of TL and all the dimensions of EEare vital and also prominent. However, the prominence in the case of technical cadre of employees occupies first rank while the management-cadre of employees has third rank, out of the three categories of cross sections. As such the scores differ significantly. There is very positive &significant relationship between EE and TL and EE is the effective function of TL..