The Role of Training in Psychological Empowerment of Human Resources from Perspective of Personnel and Managers of Cooperative Society Consumption (year: 2012)

The present study investigates the role of the psychological empowerment of human resources in training of cooperative society personnel with descriptive method and of scaling type. Statistical population of this study was 1,000 that is, the managers and employees who were serving in the cooperatives society consumption in the years 1390-1391. The Number of samples was calculated by using Cochran formula and stratified samplings with an equal volume of 280 people. Measurement tool in the study was researcher made questionnaire on the role of training in the psychological empowerment of employees with 5 Likert scale. In order to estimate the validity of the questionnaire the face and content validity of the questionnaire were used. The validity of the questionnaire by using Cronbachʹs alpha coefficient after a preliminary study was 0/89. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics including mean, frequency, percentage, standard deviation and inferential statistics, including t Univariate analysis of variance and LSD post hoc test were used. Results of the study showed that the role of training in the psychological empowerment of employees in each of the dimensions of efficacy, self-determination, competence, meaningfulness and trusting was more than average. The views of respondents with regard to demographic factors variables based on the degree, service years and the position were statistically significant and they weren’t significant in other dimensions.