Survey of the Relationship between Psychological Empowerment and Organizational Commitment in Tehran City Tax Affairs Offices

The present study was conducted in Tax Affairs Offices of Tehran city in response to this question that “Whether there is a relationship between employees’ psychological empowerment and their organizational commitment.” The Aspects of employees’ psychological empowerment (consisting of Meaningfulness، Competency، Choice/self determination، Impact and Trust feelings) are considered as independent variables، and organizational commitment as dependent variable. The subjects were selected as a sample group (n=270) based on the descriptive- Survey research method، by using the Relative-Class sampling method، within the tax experts of tax affairs offices of Tehran city (N=1900) and through limited population sampling. For data collection، questionnaire tool was used that are Mishra & Spreitzer standard questionnaire with reliability of 0. 81 according to Cronbach`s Alpha، to measure the employees’ psychological empowerment; Allen & Meyer standard questionnaire with reliability of 0. 92 according to Cronbach`s Alpha، to measure the employees’ organizational commitment. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS software and Pearson`s correlation and multiple regression، also used analysis Linear Log and other helpful tests. The results of the research indicated that there is a relatively strong relationship (R=608) between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment in the sampled population