Developing Model of Staffs Psychological Empowerment Effect on Crisis Management regarding Role of Management Change in Sport and Youth Departments in Isfahan Province

This study aimed to develop the effect of staffs’ psychological empowerment in a model on management crisis regarding the role of management change in Sport and Youth departments in the Isfahan Province. In this research work, 206 staff members of the Sport and Youth departments in the Isfahan Province were selected using the stratified random sampling. Three instruments were employed for measuring the psychological empowerment (Spreitzer, 1995) with a reliability of 0.81, management change (Mohammad Yari, 2001) with a reliability of 0.79, and management crisis (Pourhassan and Bakhsheshi, 2011) with a reliability of 0.80. The one-sample-t-test as well as the structural equation modeling were employed for analyzing the data. The results obtained indicated that the staffs psychological empowerment (M = 2.63 ± 0.98) as well as their management changed (M = 2.26 ± 1.15), and the management crisis (M = 2.51 ± 1.18) was not appropriately evaluated in the Sport and Youth departments in the Isfahan Province (P = 0.01). Furthermore, the results of the assumed model of study indicated that the staffs’ psychological empowerment directly affected improving their management change (β = 0.58) as well as their management crisis (β = 0.31) in those departments. Also the staffs’ psychological empowerment indirectly affected their management crisis (β = 0.35). Based on the results obtained, the emphasis on improving the staffs psychological empowerments can affect the development of their efficiency at the time of occupational changes as well as occurrence of the organizational crisis in addition to improvement in their occupational performances, which, from one hand, led to an increase in the efficiency of the Sport and Youth departments in the Isfahan Province, and, on the other hand, reduce the organizational losses from the financial, human, social, and political aspects