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The Relationship between Organization Social structure and Employees Empowerment in Iranian administrations

Author Affiliations

  • 1Islamic Azad University, Kerman branch, Tehran, IRAN

Res. J. Recent Sci., Volume 4, Issue (11), Pages 10-12, November,2 (2015)

Abstract

The impact of organizational social structure on employee empowerment paradigm is of management challenges that this study tries to explore the relationship between variables and provide suggestions for it. Accordingly this study is amid to investigate the relationship between social structure and employee Empowerment. This study was conducted using a stratified random sampling method. The sample size was estimated 218 employees and Data collected using two questionnaires, the social structure and empowerment that respectively consist of 25 and 20 items. To examine the hypotheses, Pearson and Spearman correlation and stepwise regression analysis (Stepwise) was used. For data analysis SPSS software version 16 was used and significance level was considered 0/05. Finally the result indicated that there is a relationship between normative structure and employee’s empowerment and there is a relationship between behavioral structure and employee’s empowerment.

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