INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP AND EXPLAINING THE EFFECT OF ORGANIC EMPOWERMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF EMPLOYEES

saeid landaran isfahani¹ homa momeni²

1) Assistant professor, , Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran
2) Msc of Business Administration, , Department of Management, Faculty of Administrative Sciences and Economics, University of Isfahan, Iran.

IOI Code : XDCZ-FZGEH
Publication : 1st conference on engineering & innovation - University of Tabriz(ncoei.ir)
Abstract :
    Introduction: with the globalization of markets, organizations were forced to build and sustain their competitive advantage for improving by focusing on intangible assets which are difficult to imitate. Objective: The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the relationship between empowerment (its five dimensions: feeling competence, feeling of having choice, feeling efficacy, feeling meaningfulness and feeling trust in others) and organizational commitment in the employees of Imam Ali Military University. Material and Methods: The required data were collected based on the research model through questionnaires (two researcher-made questionnaires that their validity was confirmed by the professors and experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach s Alpha) distributed among the employees of this university. In order to examine the relationship between the variables and the test the hypotheses, multivariate regression and structural equation modeling (path analysis) were used. Results: The results suggested a significant relationship between organic empowerment and its dimensions and organizational commitment at the 95% confidence level. Discussion and Conclusion: In other words, there was a significant relationship between the dimensions of feeling competence, feeling of having choice, feeling efficacy, feeling meaningfulness, and feeling trust in others and organizational commitment in the employees of Imam Ali Military University. It should be noted that these significant relationships were linear and direct with relatively high correlation. Therefore, it can be stated that with increasing the dimensions of empowerment, organizational commitment increases in the employees as well.

Keywords : organic empowerment organizational commitment employees of governance organization