The Effect of Employee’s Empowerment on Employee Performance in Tehran Islamic Revolution Court

Document Type : Technical-Scientific

Authors

1 Assistant Professor at Management Faculty of Central Branch of Islamic Azad University

2 MA in Governmental Management at Central Branch of Islamic Azad University

Abstract

Empowerment is the most important challenges of managers in this era, because organizations are exposed to the rapid and unpredictable changes. Since human resources are the most important factor in organizations, so, equipping and prepararing organizational resources to deal with the changes, is particulary important. The aim of the study in terms of objective is applicational and in terms of nature and method is descriptive. This research is to investigate the effect of empowerment on staff’s performance in enghelab eslami court organozation. Staff empowerment using six independant factors contain training, individual factors, competency, management, culture and environment as well as seven dependant criteria include validity, ability, feedback, environment, support, motivation and role clarity were evaluated. In order to investigate the effect of empowerment on performance, a questionnaire with six criteria and 39 questions was designed. The reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha coefficients calculated as .79 and 196 quesionnaires were distributed between Statistic population of the research. The simple and multiple Regression tests were used to assess the correlation between the criteria. The final results of the study show that there is a significant relationship between empowerment and performance and competency as an independent variable ranked first as the greatest impact on performance, individual factors and management in terms of effect on performance ranked second and third repectively. The results associated with the criteria are as follows: personal factors with highly desirable status in stood at the first place, then the second place is on education criterian with a good level, management is in the third place with an desire level, the competency is in fourth place with a good level, culture is in the fifth place with a good level and finally environmental factor is the the last position and it is undesirable.

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