The study of the relationship between organizational structure and psychological empowerment among the staffs in Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance

Abstract

The present paper has been conducted with the aim of studying the relationship between organizational structure and psychological empowerment of staff of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance. This research is applied and is survey study from conduct point of view. Research population includes all the staff, experts and managers of Financial Supervision Department and Treasury of the whole country of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance which is a total number of 537 persons. For this purpose we have used closed questionnaires in the form of five options (standard questionnaire of Robins’ organizational structure which has three dimensions of formality, complexity and focus and standard questionnaire of Whetten and Cameron’s psychological empowerment which has 5 dimensions of trust, meaningfulness, effectiveness, self-efficiency, and self-determination). The size of the sample is 224 individuals of staff, experts and managers which have been selected with the use of stratified sampling. For analyzing the obtained data descriptive statistics (frequency table) and inferential statistics (Pearson’s correlation coefficient test) have been used which the results indicate that there is significant and negative relationship between organizational structure and three dimensions of “formality”, “complexity”, “focus” with psychological empowerment variable. Dimension of focus has the highest significance (first rank) among other dimensions of organizational structure variable and also self-determination has the highest importance (first rank) among the dimensions of psychological empowerment.