AU - jafari, maryam AU - Rastegar, AbasAli TI - Studying the Impact of Transformational Leadership on Empowerment in Mediating with Learning Orientation PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - mdrsjrns JN - mdrsjrns VO - 5 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://ormr.modares.ac.ir/article-28-1003-en.html 4100 - http://ormr.modares.ac.ir/article-28-1003-en.pdf SO - mdrsjrns 1 ABĀ  - Today organizations increasingly are faced with dynamic and changing environments and In order to survive and have their own dynamics, they have to be reponsive to environmental changes. Since scholars and intellectuals know the human resources as one of the most important element of change in the organization, leadership would be a key element. The importance of leadership is because of leaders achieve goals through their influence on followers. Also skilled and empowered employees are important to achieve the organization's goals and aspirations. On the other hand, today more than ever, an organization's competitive advantage depends on the organization knowledge, knowledge using method, speed of adaptation to changing environments and pace of access to new knowledge. Organizations that are oriented towards learning and more effective use of taught, are achieved opportunities to gain greater efficiency, speed and profitability. According to importance of this topic, in this study a conceptual framework to assess the impact of transformational leadership on empowerment in Semnan University has been developed. This research from the aspect of aim is an applied research and from the aspect of the manner of data collection is a descriptive research and of the correlation type. 133 questionnaires has been collected from the personnel of the Semnan University. Data analysed useing lisrel software. Finally, the results indicated that there is a significant and positive effect of transformational leadership on learning orientation and employee empowerment .Learning orientation has no impact on the empowerment and also the results showed that transformational leadership and learning orientation account for 61% of empowerment. CP - IRAN IN - Tehran LG - eng PB - mdrsjrns PG - 25 PT - YR - 2015