“The Relationship of Empowerment, Transformational Leadership and Personal Outcomes: An Empirical Study in India”

Maintaining & creating sustainable businesses need an understanding of the role of leadership in enhancing personal outcomes of employees. The rationale of this paper is to analyze how Empowerment mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and follower’s vision in life and positive self esteem. Data were collected from 200 managers of a large organization in India. They answered to questions about their manager’s transformational leadership and their own empowerment, vision in life and positive self esteem. Results show that transformational leadership enhances followers’ vision in life and positive self esteem through enhancing empowerment.  Limitation of the study is leader’s self-rating on transformational leadership could be taken, but it would not be as legitimate as the rating given by subordinates. Another limitation is the collection of all data at the same time. The strong and positive relationship between empowerment and vision in life helps followers to see greater meaning of life. Efforts to increase meaning of life should first focus on increasing self-efficacy. If subordinate do not have faith in their own competence to do their work, its not possible for them to see vision in life. This study helps in enriching the literature by describing the process by which transformational leaders enhance followers’ vision in life and positive self esteem