The relationship between psychological empowerment with the readiness to accept change among primary health workers in Noorabad Health Network in 2012

Acceptance of organizational change by the staff is an important issue that the health system managers are facing with. The purpose of this study is the relationship between psychological empowerment with the readiness to accept change in first-level health workers in a Health Network in Noorabad city in 2012.
This is a descriptive-analytical and correlation study which is done cross-sectional in the spring of 2012. The study population included all primary health workers in Noorabad Health Network, which due to problems to access to all of them, used the cluster sampling. Tools for data collection were two standard questionnaires: psychological empowerment and readiness to acceptance rate of organizational change. For data analysis, SPSS software, 16th version was used. Also, descriptive statistical tests, Spearman test, T test and one-way ANOVA were used.
Findings showed that there was a significant relationships between acceptance of change and levels of education (F=4.113, P=0.021). Moreover, linear Regression indicated that there was a significant correlation between the two components of competence and selfdetermination with the acceptance of organizational change (p Psychological empowerment has an effect on the acceptance of organizational change. Since changes with new technology seem to be essential in healthcare organizations, we suggest health administrators to emphasize on the health care empowerment of the workers and improve components that can strengthen the organizational transformation, because through the provision of quality services, Community health and welfare increase.