Predicting Empowerment of Female employees of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Based on Glass Ceiling and Organizational Justice

The main objective of this study was to Predicting Empowerment of Female employees of the Ministry of Sport and Youth Based on Glass Ceiling and Organizational Justice. The statistical population of the study was 297 female employees of Ministry of Sport and Youth in year 97-98, 170 of them were selected via through Morgan table by simple random sampling method as sample of this study. The data collection instrument involved Glass Ceiling questionnaire(Ahmadi,1394), Employees Empowerment questionnaire (Spreitzer,1992), Organizational Justice questionnaire (Niehoff and Moorman, 1993) and Psychological Capital questionnaire (Luthans, 2007). The reliability of questionnaires was obtained as 0.78, 0.80, 0.70 and 0.71 respectively. Then, one sample T-Test was used to compare the means and Multiple Regression was used to predict and explain the empowerment variable. SPSS software was used for data analysis at the significant level of 0.5. The results indicated that glass ceiling and organizational justice can predict women’s levels of empowerment strongly. This means that a unit of standard deviation increase in glass ceiling reduced the standard deviation of empowerment variable to -0.23. Also, a unit of standard deviation increase in organizational justice led to a 0.79 increase in standard deviation of empowerment variable. It is recommended that the Ministry of Sport and Youth take positive measures to support Employees to improve their self-confidence and self-esteem so that they can break Glass Ceiling to increase their empowerment.