The Relationship between Psychological Empowerment Dimensions with Organizational Commitment

Today, competitive environment of Organizations and the lack of opportunity to manage of staff, forced the administrators to empowerment process of staff by using of the organizational commitment, skills training, knowledge and ability. Purpose of this study is the relationship between Organizational commitment and employee empowerment. Research method is descriptive and correlation. The population statistical of this study according to information of the human resources department, is consisted of all official, contractual and contract employees of Youth and Sports employees’ Ministry in Ilam city who are 75 people. Research tools used in this study, were Shert and Reinhardt Empowerment questionnaire (1992), with a reliability of 0/86 and the second questionnaire, were Allen and Mayer Organizational commitment with 0.75 reliability (1991). Data were analyzed by one sample T. Test, Pearson correlation and stepwise regression analysis. The results showed that the three dimensions of empowerment (professional growth, status and decision-making) with Organizational commitment have a meaningful relationship. These three empowerment dimensions were significant predictors for organizational commitment. In addition, the level of employee empowerment is higher of the average level and organizational commitment employee’s level is lower than the average level. The results showed that with increase of the empowerment factors (professional growth, status and decision-making) are also increased levels of organizational commitment.