Investigating effective components on empowerment of faculty members (A case study of army university)

The purpose of this paper is to examine the empowerment of faculty members of a military university in Tehran. In this paper, the components of leadership style, ability, commitment and authority were tested to determine the respondent's attitudes and the role of the aforementioned components on empowering them. Twenty faculty members of a military university in Tehran were the statistical population of the study. They also acted as the sample of the study. One sample t-test and Friedman test were used to prioritize the components. The result of the study show that leadership style and organizational commitment of the participants are in good condition, whereas authority component needs to be enhanced. Some suggestions are presented to improve the empowerment of the participants.