Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies

Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies

Study of the relation between employees' participation in organizational decisions making and empowerment in mazanderan

Authors
Saeid Emamgholizadeh 1
Seyed Borghei 2
Hassan Zarei Matien 3
1 Faculty member of shomal nonprofit university
2 Assistant professor of management faculty of the University of Tehran-Qom College
3 Associate professor of management faculty, University of Tehran
10.22059/ijms.2011.23392
Abstract
Purpose – The aim of this study is to examine relation between employees’ participation in the organizations decisions making and their psychological empowerment in Iran Telecommunication Company subsidiary of Mazanderan Province.
Design / methodology /approach- 250 employees from the Iran Telecommunication Company subsidiary of Mazanderan Province participated in this study. A Spearman's correlation analysis was used to investigate correlation between participation employees in decision making and psychological empowerment among employees Telecommunication Company of Mazanderan Province.
Finding – the findings of this study have shown that higher levels of PDM are associated with significantly higher Competence, Meaningfulness, Impact and Self-determination (p_value>0.05). A significant positive correlation was found between employees’ participation decisions making and total dimension empowerment. Coefficient correlation PDM and empowerment is 0.71 that indictor relation strengthens between two variables.
Keywords
Empowerment
Participative decision making
Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies
Volume 2, Issue 2 - Serial Number 642936
Iranian Journal of Management Studies
Spring 2009
Pages 77-95