A Study on Middle Manager's Psychological Empowerment Status and its Relation with Available Effective Factors in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences

Psychological empowerment is defined based on perceptions of manpower toward its role in the organization and includes competence, efficiency, job significance and trust. This study aimed at estimating the extent of the managers’ psychological empowerment according to three aforementioned effective factors in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. In a descriptive and correlative study, 55 middle medical managers from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in 2007-2008 were recruited. The Psychological empowerment questionnaire and the empowerment procedures questionnaire were used. The mean organizational status, managerial strategies, and self efficiency sources were 58.75, 65.94 and 65.52, respectively (within acceptable range). The mean psychological empowerment, significance perception, competence, and the feeling of efficiency were 77.29, 86.76, 75.15 and 76.16, respectively (strong); however the sense of trust was relatively strong (71.11). The three aforementioned organizational conditions had a significance and positive correlation with psychological empowerment (P=0.001). Furthermore, the correlation of self efficiency factor with psychological empowerment was more than that of the other factors. The managerial strategies had a significant and positive correlation with self efficiency and organizational conditions. The self efficiency had significant and positive correlation with organizational conditions. Organizational status, managerial strategies, and self efficiency sources had significant and positive correlation with psychological empowerment.