Explaining the Psychological Empowerment through Managers' Sources of Power: A Research in Health Sector Cover Image

Psikolojik Personel Güçlendirmeyi Yöneticinin Güç Kaynaklarıyla Açıklamak: Sağlık Sektöründe Bir Araştırma
Explaining the Psychological Empowerment through Managers' Sources of Power: A Research in Health Sector

Author(s): Alptekin Develi, Mustafa Fedai Çavuş, Bülent Öz
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Organizational Psychology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Orhan Sağçolak
Keywords: Psychological Empowerment; Managers’ Sources of Power;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this study is to determine the predictor status of managers' sources of power on the psychological empowerment. The sample of the study is consist of 155 staff working at private hospitals in the city center of Osmaniye, Turkey. The research was conducted within the framework of quantitative research pattern and correlational research design. Data were collected through convenience sampling method-survey technique and investigated via statistical analysis software. As a result of the analyses, it was found that the managers acting with expert power negatively contributed to the explanation of psychological empowerment as a whole, the managers acting with legitimate power positively contributed to the explanation of the meaning the dimension of psychological empowerment, the managers who have referent power positively contributed to the explanation of the impact the dimension of psychological empowerment, and the managers acting with expert power negatively contributed to the explanation of the impact the dimension of psychological empowerment.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 661-680
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Turkish
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