Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Urmia University

2 Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Urmia University

3 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Abstract

This study aimed to analysis of the relationship between the components of quality of working life and dimensions of psychological empowerment a mong the staffs of Urmia University. The present study is correlational. The population consisted of 720 Urmia University Staff; That 250 person of them was selected through random sampling and With Morgan table. The Data required by using two standard questionnaires quality of working life and psychological empowerment were collected and by using Canonical Correlation were analyzed. The results showed that the correlation between the quality of working life and the dimensions of psychological empowerment was 0.44. Wilks Lambda index for this connection was 0.16. The F-statistic of 13/13, which is also significant in 0/001. Also, 0.63 percentage variance between dimensions of psychological empowerment with components of quality of working life is explain. Therefore, it can be concluded that quality of life work programs play a major role in increasing the empowerment of human resources and, consequently, the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations.

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