Identifying the Components of Psychological Empowerment in School Principals of Mashhad Education and Training Office

Psychological empowerment of Education and Training principals and the implementation of its related programs is one of the most important tools for creating transformation in educational system which can directly or indirectly increase productivity and human resource development. The scientific model of this paper is based on qualitative interviews with principals and education elites, and the sampling method was purposive and snowball sampling types. Eventually, by referring to experts, 18 qualitative interviews were conducted using Grounded Theory technique to identify psychological empowerment components in Mashhad Education and Training principals. The importance and necessity of every single component of the extracted psychological empowerment model was investigated. The research was analyzed in three stages of open, axial and selective coding. The results of the study indicated that the total number of nodes (non-repetitive codes) was 140 which were synthesized through conceptual similarities and 124 nodes (common codes) were extracted on the basis of the researchers' intuition and understanding of the subject. They were categorized as tree nodes considering their commonality in terms of the two main components of the structural and managerial approaches and the existing 10 sub-components. In the following pages, the main and sub-components of the psychological empowerment of school principals of Mashhad Education and Training Office have been expressed.