Human Resource Empowerment via In-service Training

• Main Authors: Mahdy Karroubi, Mehrdad Mattany
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch 2009-08-01
• Series: مدیریت بهره وری
• Subjects: empowerment; in-service training; performance; job skills; human resource
• Online Access: http://jpm.iaut.ac.ir/article_518488_ed79848c9c38c5bc59818f75854d0068.pdf

Empowerment is nowadays considered as one of the useful tools to promote employees' quality and increase organizational effectivenes.To achieve success in today's ever-changing working environment, organizations need employees' knowledge, views, and creativity. Having defined Empowerment and its goals, the article examines employees' views on how to increase employees' working empowerment through in-service training. The research method is descriptive and its type is survey. The stratified sample includes 103 participants from the employees of the Islamic Azad University in Mazandaran. The data-collection device is a closed ended questionnaire using Likert scale, and one-way t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are used to analyze the data.The results have shown that in-service training courses are really effective on employees' performance, job satisfaction, required preparation to do their duties, and on improving working skills. The findings also suggest that there is a significant difference between the effectiveness averages of the two groups of men and women, and also the results by one-way t-test show that a siginificant difference exists among the three groups having 5-10, 10-15 and above 15 years of service background. <br />