Approaches, Framework and Dimensions of Educational Administration Empowerment

This study is done with the aim of determining the aspects of empowering the educational managers, in order to provide them with a suitable framework. The review of literature shows that empowering the human resources has been studied from three points of View/ approaches: relational, motivational and cognitive. In order to achieve the above mentioned goals, this research using a national scale is done in a two-stage survey. The results show that 93.43 percent of the experts and specialists in the Ministry of Education considered the proposed framework perfectly appropriate. Consequently, based on the obtained results in this study, other researchers’ works, and available theories, the framework enjoys adequate theoretical and experimental supports, and its administration for empowering the operational managers is strongly suggested to the high and intermediary managers in the Ministry of Education in Iran.