The Relationship between Empowerment and Self-efficacy with Job Satisfaction

The pu rp ose of t his study was to invest igate the relat ionsh ip b etween emp owe rment, self-efficacy and job satisfaction. Three hundred and ninety high school teachers were selected via multi-stage cluster sampling method from four regions (3, 6, 11 & 18) of Tehran. Participant responded to a Demographic Questionnaire, The School Participant Empowerment, The Sherer’s Gene ral Self-efficacy Scale, and The Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire. Data were analyzed with Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Multiple Regression analysis. Results indicate meaningful relationships between empowerment and Job satisfaction, empowerment and self-efficacy. There was no relationships between self-efficacy and Job sat isfact ion, although empowerment and self-efficacy had interaction relationship with J ob sat isfact io n. As a co n clu sion, emp owe rment and self-efficacy have interaction relationships; i.e. self-efficacy in t eachers le ads to empowerment and emp owe rment in t e ach e rs le ad s to self-efficacy and both of them, have effects on Job satisfaction. There fore, job satisfaction was increased with empowerment and self-efficacy.