Iranian Agricultural Academic Staff’s Organizational Culture and their Psychological Empowerment

• Main Authors: Ehsan Gholifar, Hesamedin Gholami, Mehrdad Pouya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Islamic Azad University 2013-06-01
• Series: International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development
• Subjects: Organizational culture; Psychological empowerment; Iran agricultural college faculties
• Online Access: http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ijamad/3%282%29/IJAMADJune2013P83.pdf

Faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasingproductivity and optimum use of their individual and groupabilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. Organizationalculture is the main component of decision making in universitiesand one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e.meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). Giventhe importance of these two variables and their possible relations;and as the main purpose of this study, the supposed correlationbetween Iran agricultural colleges’ faculties’ psychological empowermentand their organizational culture was investigated. Sothis descriptive correlation study surveyed agricultural faculties tomeasure their psychological empowerment and also organizationalculture in their colleges. A multi-stage random Sampling approachwas implemented. The national sample consisted of 404 facultymembers. Factor analysis determined three components of organizationalculture (i.e. team-orientations, empowerment and capabilitydevelopment). All components of psychological empowermentwere significantly and positively correlated with team-orientationsand empowerment while the capability development was only significantlycorrelated with trust.