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This study aimed to investigate the impact of empowerment on employees’ performance in Standards Office of Tehran. However, the dimensions of empowerment was investigated from psychological perspective and their impact on employees’ performance were analyzed. The main objective of this study was the analysis of empowerment impact on employees’ performance. The sub-objectives of study were the investigation of psychological aspects of empowerment including self-efficacy sense, the sense of having choice right, effective being sense, sense of meaningfulness of work, and sense of trust in others. Also, this study offered strategies to improve employees’ performance by using the empowerment components. Dara were collected by using library and questionnaire and were analyzed by descriptive-survey method. The results indicated that the employees in Standards Office of Tehran were ready to implement the empowerment process and the extent of empowerment’s psychological components were high between them. Therefore, it was suggested that senior managers in Standard Office of Tehran may increase the performance of employees by implementing the process of empowerment. Creating mentally healthy and safe environment, they may also increase the effect of empowerment in employees and develop empowerment.
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Marjani, A. B., & Alizadeh, F. (2014). The Impact of Empowerment on Employees Performance in Standards Office of Tehran. International Journal of Academic Research in Economics and Management Sciences, 3(4), 31–37.
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