An examination of the relationship between empowerment and organizational commitment

Authors

  • Gholamreza Jandaghi University of Tehran, Qom Campus, Faculty of Management
  • Reza Borghei University of Tehran, Qom Campus, Faculty of Management
  • Hasan Zarei Matin University of Tehran, Qom Campus, Faculty of Management
  • Nasrin Dastani University of Tehran, Qom Campus, Faculty of Management

Keywords:

Empowerment, Competence, Impact, Self-determination (choice), Organizational Commitment

Abstract

This research based on “Whetten” (1990) and “Spreitzer” (1992) is carried out according to the matter that empowerment is multilateral and 4 dimensions that are competence, meaning, self-determination (choice), impact and also trust are emphasized. “Meyer & Allen” commitment model consist of 3 dimensions: affective, continuance and normative commitment. Because of, both empowerment and organizational commitment are important and issues in modern societies, the research address their relations.
   Regarding the purpose, present research is an applied study and regarding data collection, it is descriptive and survey. It is also called correlation research. The sample for this study includes experts of Qom Industries & Mines Organization and Qom Standard & Industrial Research Organization who have bachelor degree or higher and be used sampling method for this homogenous statistical community. After distributing and gathering relevant questionnaires, the results are analyzed by Spss software. According to the research`s findings the correlation of trust and organizational commitment is not rather than other dimensions and this assumption is rejected but they indicates a relationship between empowerment and organizational commitment. There are relationships between 4 dimensions of empowerment and trust and organizational commitment. Finally, the dimensions of empowerment and commitment are ranked by Freedman test of which competence, normative and continuance commitment obtain the highest rank

Downloads

Metrics

PDF views
1,061
Jul 2010Jan 2011Jul 2011Jan 2012Jul 2012Jan 2013Jul 2013Jan 2014Jul 2014Jan 2015Jul 2015Jan 2016Jul 2016Jan 2017Jul 2017Jan 2018Jul 2018Jan 2019Jul 2019Jan 2020Jul 2020Jan 2021Jul 2021Jan 2022Jul 2022Jan 2023Jul 2023Jan 2024Jul 2024Jan 2025Jul 2025Jan 202670
|

Downloads

Published

2010-07-05

How to Cite

Jandaghi, G., Borghei, R., Zarei Matin, H., & Dastani, N. (2010). An examination of the relationship between empowerment and organizational commitment. Journal of Human Sciences, 7(2), 1155–1172. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/925

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Behavioral Sciences

License

Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
is an "Open Access Journal" that uses a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI definition of open access, users take the right of read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.

Authors can retain copyright, while granting the journal right of first publication. Alternatively, authors can transfer copyright to the journal, which then permits authors non-commercial use of the work, including the right to place it in an open access archive. In addition, Creative Commons can be consulted for flexible copyright licenses.

©1999 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.