Human Resource Empowerment via In-service Training

Subject Areas : Business Management

Mahdy Karroubi ¹ , Mehrdad Mattany ²

1 - Assistant Professor of Tourism Department, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran
2 - Department of Management, Ghaemshahr Unit, Islamic Azad University, Ghaemshahr, Iran

Received: 2008-03-03 Accepted : 2009-08-04 Published : 2009-08-23

Keywords: Performance, empowerment, Human Resource, Job skills, In-service training,

Abstract :

Empowerment is nowadays considered as one of the useful tools to promote employees' quality and increase organizational effectivenes.To achieve success in today's ever-changing working environment, organizations need employees' knowledge, views, and creativity. Having defined Empowerment and its goals, the article examines employees' views on how to increase employees' working empowerment through in-service training. The research method is descriptive and its type is survey. The stratified sample includes 103 participants from the employees of the Islamic Azad University in Mazandaran. The data-collection device is a closed ended questionnaire using Likert scale, and one-way t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are used to analyze the data.The results have shown that in-service training courses are really effective on employees' performance, job satisfaction, required preparation to do their duties, and on improving working skills. The findings also suggest that there is a significant difference between the effectiveness averages of the two groups of men and women, and also the results by one-way t-test show that a siginificant difference exists among the three groups having 5-10, 10-15 and above 15 years of service background.  

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