EFFECTIVENESS OF EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP'S ROLE ON JOB INVOLVEMENT REINFORCEMENT THROUGH A MEDIATOR ROLE FOR STRATEGIC THINKING SKILLS IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR OF KAKAMEGA COUNTY, KENYA

Abstract

The mediator role for leaders' strategic thinking skills in the relation between the empowerment leadership
and job involvement is investigated. The empowerment leadership's dimensions have been adopted (ideal,
participation in decision-making, training, media, showing interest and interaction with the team) based
on the leader's strategic thinking skills and adopted on (cogitation, systemic thinking and paraphrasing).
This has been based on adopting on the job involvement taken as mono- dimensional. Kakamega County
was the preferred research field. The instrument for data collection was a self-administered questionnaire
that covered a target population located in 239 high schools in the county. Analysis assertive factor
(structure equation's modeling), descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, regression analysis and path
analysis to specify direct and indirect effect were applied. The study sets out a number of conclusions, the
most important was that the strategic thinking variable increases the whole effect for the empowerment
leadership variable on the job involvement in the education environment in Kakamega County. The
research has proposed appropriate recommendations.
Keywords: Empowerment Leadership, Job Involvement, Strategic Thinking.