The Quality of Work life and the Explanation of Predictive Role of its Components in Psychological Empowerment of Primary Teachers

Fouroghiniya, Mohammadhossein; Pourshafei, Hadi; Khamesan, Ahmad; Khoshbakhti, Jafar

The Quality of Work life and the Explanation of Predictive Role of its Components in Psychological Empowerment of Primary Teachers

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

¹ Master of Educational Management, Birjand University

² Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Birjand University

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Birjand University

⁴ Assistant Professor of Physical Education, Birjand University

Abstract

By new reflections and basic changes which have been made in the field of Human Resources Administration (HRA), the way for using the professional ability of employees has paved and managers pay more attention to workers who are the main property of organizations. This has caused to design and provide spread and various programs in order to improve the professional ability of employees, boasts, satisfaction, affection and also the quality of their work life. This research has been done with the aim of investigating the quality of work life and making clear the role of its predictive terms with psychological empowerment of primary teachers in Birjand. The research method was descriptive-corrolational and the statistic society was all the teachers of grades 4 and 5 in Birjand primary schools in academic years 1390_91. The samples size has been estimated base on Korchi and Murugan chart and was 188 teachers whom have been chosen by Random Sampling. The research tools were two questionnaires: Quality of Work Life (Walton, 1973) and Psychological Empowerment (Spreatrez, 1995), which their reliabilities were respectively 0/895 and 0/827, base on Conbach’s Alpha. The results showed that the condition of quality of work life and psychological empowerment of teachers were higher than average. There were statistically significant correlation between the components of quality of work life (instead of general atmosphere) and psychological empowerment. In addition, social dependence of work life, securing the opportunity of growth, continuing security and expanding the human abilities predicts psychological empowerment. Furthermore, there were statistically significant differences between the components of quality of work life and psychological empowerment of male and female teachers.

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