Assessment of Internal Relationship between Employees Empowerment and Developing Structural-Interpretive Model

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Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

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Empowerment of employees is an effective method for improving productivity, promoting the quality of activities and gaining success. This research is intended to investigate factors affecting empowerment of the employees, techniques of promoting resolutions and the quality of activities through a system-oriented approach. In this regard, the internal relationship between factors and empowerment practice, and the developed interpretive-structural model (ISM), was investigated. Data was collected from 36 university experts both from official and managerial sections. Two types of self-made questionnaires were employed to collect data. The validities of the questionnaires were confirmed by content validity method, and their reliabilities were confirmed through test-retest method. The results relating to developing interpretive-structural modeling through quantitative data for comparing the internal relationship between empowerment activities and qualitative model showed it is necessary to emphasize more on empowerment factors and activities on the basis of instruction and transparency of goals along with emphasis on factors and activities affecting the foundation of empowerment.
 

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Journal of Research in Human Resources Management
Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
serial no.24
August 2016
Pages 85-111

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  • Receive Date: 01 October 2015
  • Revise Date: 30 April 2016
  • Accept Date: 16 June 2016

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