A Study on the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Employee Empowerment Cover Image

Örgüt Kültürü ile Personel Güçlendirme Arasındaki İlişkiye Yönelik Bir Araştırma
A Study on the Relationship between Organizational Culture and Employee Empowerment

Author(s): İlhami Yücel, Daimi Koçak
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Organizational Psychology, Accounting - Business Administration, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Kafkas Üniversitesi Sağlık, Kültür ve Spor Daire Başkanlığı Dijital Baskı Merkezi
Keywords: Organizational culture; employee empowerment;

Summary/Abstract: Being of people oriented of today’s businesses has been compulsory due to increased customer and employee expectations. Empowerment has an important place in the field of today’s business management approach. Empowerment can be carried out by a culture which supports creating a flexible place for employees, incorporating them into decisions, training them continuously and letting them using authority and responsibility. In other words, application of personnel empowerment successfully depends on culture of organization. The main objective of this study is to determine the relationship between organizational culture and employee empowerment and to reveal the proportion of the relationship between organization culture and strengthening staff concepts in terms of sub sub-dimensions by examining the stated concepts. The research was carried out by performing survey conducted on 310 employees working in a company from aviation industry. In the analysis of the conducted surveys, frequency distributions, reliability analysis, factor analysis, t-test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), correlation analysis and regression analysis were used from statistical methods and the results were summarized in tables. The workers of the company where the surveys were performed stated that the organization had adhocracy and market culture and they felt as reinforced.

  • Issue Year: 7/2016
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 1-24
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Turkish