Designing and testing a model of precedents and outcomes of psychologicalempowerment

The aim of this research was to design and test a model of precedents and outcomes of psychologicalempowerment in employees of the Marun oil and gas producing company. The method was a correlation through a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) design. For this purpose 250employees were selected from this company through simple random sampling. The instruments used in the present study included the Psychological Empowerment Scale (PES), Ethical Leadership scale (ELS), Leader _ Member Exchange Scale (LMXS), Self _ Esteem Scale (SES), Locus Of Control Scale (LOCS), Organizational Commitment Scale (OCS), Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale (OCBS). Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and mediation analysis. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that the proposed model fits the data properly. The results also supported the direct effect of ethical leadership, leader _ member exchange, self – esteem and locus of control on psychological empowerment, direct effect of psychological empowerment on organizational commitment, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior, and indirect effect of psychological empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior through organizational commitment and job satisfaction. It can be concludedthat by holding training courses of psychological empowerment, adopting to an ethical leadershipapproach, improvingthe relationship between supervisors and employees, holding training workshops to increase the self-esteem of employees, describingthe benefits of adopting to the internal focus of control for employees, and whether employees know themselves responsible for their actionsand influence on their cognitive processes, organizations can increase the feelings associated with employees empowerment.All the above mentioned can lead to achieving positive results such as higher organizational commitment, job satisfaction and organizational citizen behavior in employees.