A study factors affecting empowerment of Staff in Technical & vocational Training administration on the branch of Headquarters Tehran

homeira rezapour¹ Hasan Almasi²

IOI Code : XYCF-ADGFD
Publication : 2nd.International Congress on Management, Economy, Humanities and Business Development(icmba.ir)
Abstract :
    Present study investigates factors affecting empowerment of employees at Tehran Technical and Vocational Department-General of Education. Main question in this research is that if such factors as sense of meaningfulness, sense of effectiveness, sense of self-determination, sense of self-efficacy and sense of trust affect empowerment and on other hand, if empowerment is significantly different according to the different ground variables. To find answer of these questions, standard 27 item questionnaire of empowerment was used. Statistical universe of this research are employees to the number of 196. Volume of sample equal to 130 people was calculated using Cochran formula. However, 135 questionnaires were distributed and data analysis based on 135 people was conducted by SPSS software. To determine validity and reliability of questionnaire, content validity and Cronbach’s alpha were utilized. Sampling method used in this study is simple and to analyze the data, such descriptive statistical methods as frequency, frequency percentage and mean were used. Also, in the inferential statistics, a two-variable regression correlation test (Pearson correlation coefficient) was used. The obtained results illustrated that correlation between variables affecting empowerment was verified at the %95 confidence interval and empowerment was significantly different only according to education. Added to that, results of analyzing causality showed that sense of meaningfulness enjoyed the most positive and direct effect on empowerment of employees

Keywords : empowerment self determination sense of meaningfulness sense of self efficacy sense of trust sense of effectiveness