Relationship between psychological empowerment and productivity of medical librarians

Introduction: Psychological empowerment is really important and has remarkable effect on different organizational variables such as job satisfaction,organizational commitment,productivity,etc. So the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and productivity of Librarians in Isfahan Medical University. Methods: This was correlational research. Data were collected through two questionnaires. Psychological empowerment questionnaire and the manpower productivity questionnaire of Gold. Smith Hersey which their content validity was confirmed by experts and their reliability was obtained by using Cronbach s Alpha coefficient,0.89 and 0.9 respectively. Due to limited statistical population,did not used sampling and review was taken via census. So 76 number of librarians were evaluated. Information were reported on both descriptive and inferential statistics (correlation coefficient tests Pearson,Spearman,T-test,ANOVA),and analyzed by using the SPSS19 software. Findings: In our study,the trust between partners and efficacy with productivity had the highest correlation. Also there was a direct relationship between psychological empowerment and the productivity of labor (r =0.204). In other words,with rising of mean score of psychological empowerment,the mean score of efficiency increase too. Conclusions: The results showed that if development programs of librarian s psychological empowerment increase in order to their productivity,librarians carry out their duties with better sense. Also with using the capabilities of librarians,the development of creativity with happen and organizational productivity will increase. © 2015 Maliheh Zare,Fateme Zarmehr,Hasan Ashrafi-rizi.