The Psychological Empowerment's Enhancement in Light of Knowledge Sharing

Empowerment within an organization is an ability that provides decision making opportunity by developing the span of authority, and it caused the breakage of traditional hierarchy of organizational structure. Among different dimensions of empowerment, its psychological dimension so has been considered by researchers in length of past years. Knowledge sharing is one of the factors which effects on psychological empowerment. The purpose of the present research is investigation of relationship between knowledge sharing and psychological empowerment. The method used in this study in terms of data collection is descriptive- survey method and in terms of research purposes, it is an applied research. Statistical population of present study includes 387 persons of Training and Education Employees of Mazandaran Province and its equal sample includes 172 employees. Data is collected by using standard questionnaires, and analyzed by SPSS and LISREL software. Results show that there is significant and positive relationship between psychological empowerment and all dimensions of knowledge sharing. According to observed results, knowledge sharing is a much strong factor that can lead to employees’ empowerment.