Identifying and Ranking Factors Influencing Empowerment for Productivity Using Demetel Method

Subject Areas : Sustainable Development

Bahador Changizi ¹ , Mojgan amirianzadeh ² , Moslem Salehi ³ , Reza Zarei ⁴

1 - PhD Student, Department of Educational Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran. (Correspondent)
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor Department of Educational Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht. Iran
4 - Assistant Professor Department of Educational Management, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht. Iran.

Received: 2019-10-30 Accepted : 2020-02-06 Published : 2020-02-20

Keywords: Productivity, empowerment, National Gas Company, DEMTEL Approach,

Abstract :

Since the workforce in organizations plays an important and critical role in creating competitive advantage, we must look for strategies to increase their productivity. There are various techniques to increase employee productivity to advance the goals of the organization, one of which is human resource empowerment. The purpose of the present study is to identify and rank the effective factors on human resources empowerment in order to improve the performance of the National Iranian Gas Company using the DEMITEL method. This research is applied in terms of survey method and in terms of purpose. To collect the research data, a questionnaire was prepared and the validity and reliability of the questions were assessed by experts' opinion and using Cronbach's test. Data Analysis Using the Demetel Model, the Relationship between Causes and Causes can be transformed into an intelligent structure for the system. It is Iranian gas. The results of this study show that the individual factor is the most important factor in human resource empowerment in terms of productivity and the structural factor and organizational factor are in the next rank order respectively.