A study on the Correlation between Empowerment and Effectiveness in Rafsanjan’s Public Administration

This study is to investigate the relationship between staff's empowerment and organizational effectiveness in state organizations and administrations in Rafsanjan. Staff's empowerment is measured through aspects such as feeling of merit, confidence, effectiveness, autonomy, and feeling of having a meaningful and significant career. Organizational effectiveness is measured by methods which are based on the internal procedure of organizations through factors such as organizational culture, organizational situation, human relations, decision-making method, and organizational rewards. The research method which was used in the current study is descriptive-co relational. Population of the present research consists of the staff in state organizations and administrations in Rafsanjan. To select target sample, random stratified sampling was used. After checking the validity and reliability of two questionnaires, they were administered to 325 respondents. Then, collected data were entered into SPSS statistical software and analyzed by using descriptive statistics as mean, median, frequency table and various figures as well as inferential statistics as Spearman's correlation and Kendall test.Analyzed data showed a significant relationship between staff's empowerment and organizational effectiveness of state organizations and administrations in Rafsanjan. Furthermore, a significant relationship was found among staff's feeling of merit, confidence, effectiveness, autonomy, their feeling of having a significant job and organizational effectiveness in state organizations and administrations in Rafsanjan.