M.A. Thesis:

The Relationship between Positive Leadership and Work Engagement with the Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment among the Manager of Secondary Schools of Sabzevar

The present study examine the relationship between positive leadership and work engagement with the mediating role of psychological empowerment among the manager of secondary schools of Sabzevar. The method of research is descriptive and its type is correlation with an emphasis on structural equations. The population consisted of all manager of secondary schools of Sabzevar (138 persons) that 102 peoples were selected using on cochrane formula based.That sample was selected by Simple Random sampling. The data was collected through positive leadership Cameron, work engagement by Schaufeli, Bakker, psychological empowerment by Spreitzer & Mishra questionnaires. To evaluate validity and reliability of the questionnaires we used Cronbach Alpha coefficient The Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analyzing. The results showed that:1) There is a significant and positive relationship between the positive leadership and work engagement. 2) There is a significant and positive relationship between the positive leadership and psychological empowerment. 3) There is a significant and positive relationship between the psychological empowerment and work engagement. 4) psychological empowerment playing a mediating role in relationship between positive leadership and work engagement. positive leadership have significant impact on the psychological empowerment (0/43) and psychological empowerment have significant impact on the work engagement (0/32)

Keywords: positive leadership, work engagement, psychological empowerment, manager