The relationship between Information Technology with Organizational Performance through Psychological Empowerment in the staff of Fars General Directorate of Sports and Youth

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between information technology and organizational performance through psychological empowerment in the employees of the Department of Sports and Youth of Fars. The statistical population of this research was made up of all employees of the General Department of Sports and Youth of Fars, numbering 114 people, of which 103 people cooperated with the researcher. In order to collect data, a questionnaire of personal characteristics and three standard questionnaires of organizational performance by Sarmad et al. (2010), psychological empowerment (Spritzer, 1995) and information technology by Lortz et al. (2004) were used. In order to describe the data, descriptive statistics methods were used and for the inferential analysis of the data, the statistical methods of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression were used in SPSS software, as well as structural equations. The findings of this research showed that the results of the Pearson correlation test showed a direct and meaningful relationship between information technology and its components with organizational performance and also; There was a direct and significant relationship between information technology and its components with psychological empowerment (P ≤ 0.01). The results of regression analysis showed that organizational performance can be predicted based on information technology and psychological empowerment. Finally, the results of structural equations have shown that information technology has a significant relationship with organizational performance through psychological empowerment in the employees of the General Department of Sports and Youth of Fars.