The Impact of Supportive Leadership on Employee Empowerment: A Field Study in the Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Blind in Aden Governorate

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the impact of supportive leadership on empowering workers. A field study in the Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Blind in Aden Governorate. The study followed the descriptive analytical approach. The study sample consisted of (34) individuals from the Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Blind in Aden Governorate, taken by a comprehensive inventory method. Due to the small study population ...the researchers used the questionnaire as a tool for collecting data and based on the outputs of the statistical analysis carried out by the researcher, the most prominent results were as follows. There is a statistically significant effect at a significant level (a≤0.05) of supportive leadership combined on empowering workers at the Society for the Care and Rehabilitation of the Blind in Aden Governorate. There are also no statistically significant differences at a significant level (a≤0.05) in the answers of the study sample members towards the two variables of the study (supportive leadership and employee empowerment) due to their differences in personal and job characteristics (gender, age, educational qualification, job title, service years). The study recommended increasing the degree of supportive leadership practice towards blind workers and adopting its dimensions (inspirational motivation, fair treatment, and creative encouragement, human capital development) to create an appropriate and suitable environment to empower them.