With the development of the economy, competition among enterprises is becoming increasingly fierce. In management work, leadership style plays an important role in employees' psychological perception. This article explores the important impact of transformational leadership on the psychological empowerment of enterprise employees based on resource conservation theory and leadership theory. And through the method of questionnaire survey, the interrelationship between transformational leadership and its psychological empowerment with subordinates, as well as the mediating mechanism between the two, were tested. The results indicate that transformational leadership significantly positively affects the psychological empowerment activities of its subordinates; In the mutual relationship between transformational leadership ability and psychological empowerment of enterprise employees, work values and psychological capital play a mediating role, respectively.

Yang Liu. The Role of Transformational Leadership in Empowering Employees' Psychological Empowerment: The Mediating Role of Work Values. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 23: 138-144. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2023.052321.

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