Investigation of Relationship between Organizational Commitment and Employees’ Empowerment

The present paper tries to investigate relationship between dimensions of organizational commitment (OC) and employees’ empowerment in Moghan cultivation and industry stock company. Three dimensions were considered for OC based on Allen and Meyer theory: affective commitment, continuous commitment and normative commitment. Four dimensions were also considered for empowerment based on Thomas and Wolthas theory: sense of competency, sense of independence, sense of effectiveness and sense of meaningfulness. Population of the present study included all employees of Moghan cultivation and industry stock company (1754 people). Cocheran’s formula was used to calculate sample size (315 people). Data collecting tool was two questionnaires which were distributed among sample members after verifying their validity and reliability. Descriptive statistics was used for analysis, classification and paraphrase of data and inference statistics (including Spearman correlation test and Friedman test) were used to test the hypotheses. Results showed that there is a significant relationship between OC and employees’ empowerment and its dimensions in Moghan cultivation and industry stock company. Furthermore, results showed that the strongest relationship exists between OC and meaningfulness sense and the weakest relationship exists between OC and sense of independence.