reduce occupational stress by leader empowering behaviors

present research studies the relationship between leader empowering behaviors and employee stress in qom agricultural jihad organization. to measure leader empowering behaviors, hoy’s (1994) leader empowering behaviors model and for measure employee distress, rondelof and blackburn questionnaire (1990) have been used. statistical sample consists of 70 employees of qom agricultural jihad organization who answered the questions in winter 2014. in terms of aim, present study is an applications one and in terms of data collection, it is survey – type descriptive study. it is categorized in correlative studies. the findings of confirmatory factor analysis show that all aspects of leader empowering behaviors have positive significant relationship with knowledge management. likewise, the results of single community statistical average test show that leaders’ enabler behaviors and employee stress have ideal situation in qom agricultural jihad organization. since employee stress is a strategic tool to achieve aims and outlooks and considering the important role of leader empowering behaviors in achieving this aim, today organizations should highly matter the role leader empowering behaviors in employee stress to survive in today competitive world.