Mediating Effect of Teacher’s Empowerment between Head’s Authentic Leadership and Teacher’s Job Performance at Secondary Level in Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

This study is carried out to explore the mediating role of TE between the relationship of head's AL and teacher's JP, particularly in the context of Pakistan. All the public secondary school heads and teachers in Punjab constituted the population and study was delimited to the six districts of Punjab, Pakistan. Through proportionate random sampling technique 271 heads and 865 teachers were selected. For the measurement of three variables of the study three different instruments; Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (ALQ), School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPSE) and Teacher's Job Performance Scale (TJP) were adapted. In order to analyze the mediating effect of TE between head's AL and TJP, Process-Macro was applied. This study develops and veteran a framework, collision of head's AL and teacher's JP in the occurrence of TE as mediator. The results shows significant mediating effect of TE among heads AL and TJP, consequently empowered teachers show better performance as compared to less empowered teachers. It is recommended that heads, supervisors, administrators and managers should highlight relational transparency, supreme moral principles, balanced processing and self-awareness to enhance teacher's level of empowerment and their job performance