Investigating the Relationship between the Quality of Work Life and Psychological Empowerment and the Interactive Effect of Demographic Variables on the Staff Productivity of Zahedan Municipality
Subject Areas : Business Management
Samaneh Salimi
1
,
Narges Saidiyan
2
1 - Master of Educational Management, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch (Isfahan), member of Young Researchers Club
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Khorasgan Branch (Isfahan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
Keywords: Productivity, psychological empowerment, Quality of Work Life, Zahedan Municipality,
Abstract :
The main objective of the current study was studying the relationship betweenThe quality of work life, psychological empowerment and the interactive effect of demographic variables on staff productivity of Zahedan Municipality. The research population was 257 staff members of the central municipality of Districts 1, 2 and 3 of Zahedan. By using Krejcie and Morgan (1971) sample size determining tables, a sample size of 155 people was calculated. The sampling method was random stratified sampling. For collecting data, Walton (1973) quality of work life, Spreitzer (1996) psychological empowerment and Hersey and Goldsmith (1980) productivity questionnaires were used. The data of the questionnaires were analyzed in descriptive and inferential statistics level comprising Pearson correlation coefficient test, step by step regression, simultaneous regression, multivariate analysis of variance and through Spss 16.5 software. The findings indicate that there is a positive and significant correlation among all aspects of quality of work life and psychological empowerment with staff productivity. In the step by step regression, the dimension of growth opportunity and continuous security as well as the dimension of influence had the best capacity to predict productivity. Among the demographic variables, only gender interaction × work experience and age interaction × gender have led to the difference in the average scores of the staff in productivity.
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Chang, L. C., (2008), "Employee empowerment, innovative behavior and job productivity of public health nurses: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey". International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45:1442-1448.
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Spreitzer, Gretchen, (1995), "Social structural characteristics of psychological empowerment", Academy of Management Journal. 2: 483-504.
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