مدل معادلات ساختاریِ ارتباط میان ساختار سازمانی و توانمندسازی روانشناختی کارکنان (شاهد تجربی: اداره آموزش و پرورش شهرستان بابلسر و بهنمیر)

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 کارشناسی ارشد مدیریت دولتی، عضو باشگاه پژوهشگران جوان، قائمشهر، ایران

2 دانشیار و عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه مازندران، بابلسر، ایران

3 دانشجوی دکتری مدیریت دولتی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد علوم و تحقیقات، تهران، ایران

چکیده

توانمندسازی به معنای آماده کردن کارکنانی است که به اندازة کافی دارای استقلال باشند، و به آن­ها اجازه می­دهد تا بتوانند موقعیت­های مسئله­ای پیش­بینی نشده از قبیل شکایات را حل نمایند. توانمندسازی روانی یکی از عواملی است که بیش­ترین تاثیر را بر موفقیت، رشد اقتصادی و بهره­وری سازمان­ها و بنگاه­ها دارد، و از جهتی یکی از مولفه­های مهم در جهت توانمندسازی کارکنان در داخل سازمان، ساختار سازمانی مناسب است. هدف اصلی این تحقیق بررسی رابطه میان ساختار سازمانی و توانمندسازی روانی کارکنان است. جامعه آماری این پژوهش، 113 نفر از کارکنان اداره آموزش و پرورش شهرستان بابلسر و بهنمیر می­باشند، که برای نمونه­گیری آن از روش سرشماری استفاده شد، هم­چنین برای جمع­آوری اطلاعات از پرسشنامه بهره گرفته، و در نهایت 102 پرسشنامه پس از تکمیل و بازنگری مورد بررسی قرار گرفت، و تجزیه و تحلیل داده­ها نیز بوسیله نرم­افزارهای SPSS و LISREL انجام شده است. یافته­­ها نشان می­دهد میان ساختار سازمانی و توانمندسازی رابطه منفی و معنی­داری وجود دارد. هم­چنین میان مولفه­های ساختار سازمانی و توانمندسازی، ارتباط منفی و معنی­داری وجود دارد. امروزه سازمان­ها برای بهبود عملکرد و اثربخشی نیازمند به کارکنان توانمند هستند تا به اهداف خود در جهت رشد و بهره­وری برسند، از این رو، وظایفة اصلی سازمان­ها باید حرکت و توجه بیش­تر به سمت توانمندسازی بیش­تر در کارکنان و ایجاد ساختاری مناسب برای توسعه آن باشد.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Structural Equation Modeling of Relationship between Organizational Structure and Employees' Psychological Empowerment (An Empirical Evidence: Babolsar and Bahnamir City Education and Training Administration)

نویسندگان [English]

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چکیده [English]

Empowerment means providing service employees with enough autonomy to allow them to handle unforeseen problem situations such as complaints. At first hand, psychological empowerment is one of factors that have most influence on organizations and firms' success, economic growth, and productivity. One the other hand, suitable organizational structure is one of important components to employees' empowerment within organization. The main purpose of present research is investigation of relationship between organizational structure and employees' psychological empowerment. Statistical population of present study includes 113 persons of babolsar and bahnamir cityeducation and training administrations' employees and the census method was used for sampling, they also used a questionnaire to collect information and finally, 102 completed questionnaires were analyzed and reviewed, and analyzing the data by SPSS and LISREL software is done. Results show that there is a significant and negative relationship between organizational structure and employees' empowerment. So there is a significant and negative relationship between organizational structure components and empowerment. Nowadays, in order to performance and effectiveness improvement, organizations need to empowered employees to accomplish their own goals towards growth and productivity. Thus, organizations should pay more attention to their employees’ empowerment and creation of suitable organizational structure for its development that is main duties of them.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Organizational structure
  • Psychological Empowerment
  • Education and Training Administration
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