Examining the Relationship Between Employee's Empowerment And Realization of Electronic Banking

An issue of great concern in the current literature which has attracted the attention of a lot of managers and researchers is empowerment. Similarly, one of the recurrent technologies in the third millennium in banking industry is electronic banking which is increasing dramatically. This paper examines the relationship between these two fundamental challenges in Mellat Bank,Iran. To this end, a psychological empowerment model, namely, sprits was used and two questionnaires were developed and administered to 134 employees and 150 key customers of Mellat Bank of Zanjan county. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Given the correlational nature of the study, statistical analysis utilized included Spearman correlation coefficient. The results attested to a meaningful relationship between employees’ empowerment and realization of electronic banking.