Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 , Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and job performance with the mediating role of job attitudes.The statistical population were the employees of Marun Oil & Gas Producing Company, Ahvaz. Among them 216 employees were selected via stratified random sampling. The research instruments consisted of the psychological empowerment questionnaire, the counterproductive behavior questionnaire, the organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire, the in-role behavior questionnaire, the job Satisfaction questionnaire and the affective commitment questionnaire. A simple correlation method was employed for the simple hypothesis and a bootstrap was employed in order to test the mediating hypotheses using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on Amos 20 and SPSS 16. The results showed that the model was fit with the data. There was a positive relationship between psychological empowerment and job satisfaction, affective commitment, IRB and OCB and a negative relationship with counterproductive behavior. The results also indicate that affective commitment mediated the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior, and the relationship with psychological empowerment and in-role behavior, but only job satisfaction mediated the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. Thus, it can be concluded that psychological empowerment has a positive effect on job attitudes, and conclusively on job performance.
 

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