The Impact of Empowering Leadership on Job Performance of Higher Education Institutions Employees: Mediating Role of Goal Clarity and Self-Efficacy

Tanveer Ahmed, Yang Chaojun, Yang Hongjuan, Salman Mahmood Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Tanveer Ahmed; Yang Chaojun, Faculty of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China, Email tmsurahio82cs@hotmail.com; yangcj84@163.comPurpose: The main objective of existing research is to assess empowering leadership effects on employees’ job performance at the academic level through mediating variables’ goal clarity and self-efficacy.Methods: Data were congregated from 400 employees belonging to higher education institutions of Pakistan through research assistants, hired for data collection. Statistical procedures, such as factor analysis via statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS 23), structural equation modeling with bootstrapping via statistical tool analysis of moment structures (AMOS 24), were used to evaluate data and assess the relationship among the constructs.Results: The structural equation modeling analysis uncovered several results. For instance, it shows the positive influence of empowering leadership behaviors on goal clarity, self-efficacy, and employees’ job performance. Moreover, the bootstrap investigation showed that goal clarity and self-efficacy mediate empowering leadership behaviors’ influence on workers’ job performance. Therefore, conferring to existing study results empowering leadership is significantly associated with employees’ job performance in the presence of mediators goal clarity and self-efficacy at the academic level of higher education institutions of Sindh, Pakistan.Conclusion: The main research question of existing research is to assess empowering leadership effects on employees’ job performance through mediating variables’ goal clarity and self-efficacy. To investigate this research question, we have conducted this study and empirically established that empowering leadership can affect employees’ job performance with and without mediation. We have also shown empowering leadership as collaborative effects produce advanced levels of self-efficacy, goal clarity, and employees’ job performance than either leadership behavior could accomplish by itself.Keywords: empowering leadership, job performance, goal clarity, self-efficacy, higher education institutions