Authors : Sayed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Daraei , Behzad Khodaie and Yashar Salamzadeh
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between employee psychological empowerment and knowledge management practices. According Spreitzer view access to information related to the various aspects of individual’s work such as access to organization’s mission and their work unit performance are positively related to their psychological empowerment. Alternately, only when individuals feel empowered will they use such information and proactively implement and incorporate the insights gained from such information at their work. The more empowered they feel to share what they know and access information from others, the more they may engage in these activitiesin in fact they engage in the various knowledge management practice. For this research, the researchers adopt this view of psychological empowerment as an important individual characteristic that effects how people engage in the various knowledge management practice. The procedure of the research is survey method and its statistical population is the staffs in Ardabil province. The sample size is determined 211 of social security organization staffs. Data collection for the observed variables of the LISREL Model was carried out through a self administered questionnaire. The interpretation of the results obtained from LISREL and the results of hypothesis testing showed that there are significant. Relationship between employee empowerment and their enganing in knowledge management practices in the Social Security Organization and in this study the structural equations modeling developed, theoretical models of Spirtzer view was not approved.
Sayed Ali Akbar Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Daraei , Behzad Khodaie and Yashar Salamzadeh , 2012. Structural Equations Modeling of Relationship Between Psychological Empowerment and Knowledge Management Practices (A Case Study: Social Security Organization Staffs of Ardabil Province, Iran). International Business Management, 6: 8-16.