Predicting Teachers' Job Performance Based on Psychological Empowerment

A teacher is the most effective factor known in school and teachers' job performance is one of the basic indicators of success and continuity of goals of educational organizations and teachers' ability will play an important role in it. The aim of this study was to predict the job performance of teachers based on psychological empowerment.

the Research method was descriptive correlation method and the statistical population included all female teachers in schools in District 4 of Shiraz with 413 people, 198 samples were selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. Patterson's Job Performance Questionnaire, Spritzer Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire was used to collect data. Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression tests were used to analyze the data.

The results of correlation coefficient showed that job performance has a positive and significant relationship with psychological empowerment. Also, the results of multiple regression with stepwise method showed that among the components of psychological empowerment, meaningful components, trust, effectiveness and competence were the best predictors of teachers' job performance.

It seems that to improve the job performance, it is better to know factors that can affect it, so we should improve Psychological Empowerment