A Survey On investigating psychological empowerment score and indentifing the effective factors on psychological empowerment (Case Study: Khorasan Regional Electricity Company)

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

Azar  Kafashpor ¹ (دانشیار و عضو هیئت علمی دانشکده علوم اداری و اقتصادی دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد)
Neda  shakoori ² (دانشجوی دکتری رشته مدیریت منابع انسانی، دانشکده علوم اداری و اقتصادی دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد.)

Received: 2015-09-21 Accepted : 2016-02-10 Published : 2016-03-16

Keywords: Psychological empowerment, human resourse, Affective Factors, Khorasan Regional Electricity ,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate psychological empowerment score and to indentify and rank the effective factors on psychological empowerment in khorasan regional electricity company. The research is application and doing with quantitative and describe methodsThe data were collected from 116 personnels of company.its validity was confirmed by the experts and elite universities and factor analyses and its reliability was approved via Cronbach’s alpha of 0.906. sampling is Stratified Sampling and tools Data Gathering is questionnaire.For examining the hypothesis T test, Friedman test, Bartlett's Test, Structural Equation Modeling has been used based on 9 hypothesis have been verified .The collected data were analyzed with SPSS software and lisrel software. The Results demonstrated that the rate of employee empowerment is more than average and structure empowerment , Empowering leadership , training, information sharing, reward, job characteristics, trust, psychological capital, self evaluation were place in first to ninth ranks , respectively.

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