Impact of perceived leader's integrity on employee's engagement of government sector employees: mediating role of psychological empowerment

Leaders' integrity is a quality of influential leaders and a vital concept in organizational psychology; corporate researchers suggest that leaders' integrity and psychological empowerment should be a central theme in business leadership studies. The main objective of the current study was to examine the impact of perceived leaders' integrity on employees' engagement and mediating role of psychological-empowerment in employees. It was hypothesized that i) there would be a significantly positive relationship between perceived leader's integrity, psychologicalempowerment, and employee's engagement in employees; ii) Psychological-empowerment would mediate the relationship between perceived leader's integrity and employee's engagement in employees. We took a sample of (N = 320) employees from various government departments of Pakistan with the age range of (25-60) years. The sample was selected through purposive sampling technique. The study findings suggested that perceived leaders' integrity positively correlates with psychological-empowerment and employee's engagement. However, it is also revealed that psychological-empowerment fully mediates the relationship between perceived leaders' integrity and employee's engagement. Furthermore, demographic variables differed between study variables in employees. The current study's findings add to the literature about perceived leaders' integrity and employee's engagement. Organizations should take care of their employees' -psychological-empowerment and have complete insight into leaders'-integrity which help to enhance employee's-engagement.