The study of the relationship between management skills and employee empowerment at IRI Army University for Medical Sciences

Modern age has prepared different situation for organizations. As a result of passing the industrial revolution, the instrumental attitude to human forces has been paled. Personnel of professional organizations have become the main leaders in work process and organizational partners. Therefore, not only the managers must be armed to leadership skill, the employees also must learn methods that lead them to self-leadership. To achieve these characteristics, the organizations must empower the human resource as their most important resources.Being an applied research, the current study is a descriptive one. The hypothesis of study focused on the relationship between empowering the employees and management skills in a Medical Science University. For data collection, the researchers have used two standard questionnaires. Data analysis was done using SPSS18 and LISREL8.Regarding the dimensions of management skills, the findings showed an average of 3.87 for perceptive skills the most appropriate skill, human skill with an average of 3.77 ranking the second, technical skill with an average of 3.50 at third position of desirability, and in relation toempowering the employees, the index of meaningfulness was the first with an average of 5.03 and the feeling of confidence was the last with an average of 4.77. The results of the research confirm that there is an strong relationship between management skills and empowering the staff.