Yazdani, B.O. & Yaghoubi, N.-M & Giri, E.S.. (2011).

Factors affecting the

empowerment of employees (an empirical study). European Journal of Social Sciences.
20. 267-274. Traditional methods of motivation designed for organizations need in
physical dimension of employees are currently not proper. Today, because of dynamic
structure and complexity of competitive environment, the needs of organizations to
creativity and intellectual power of their personnel has increased. Hence it is
necessary to identify new methods to motivate employees in order to maintain and
enhance competitive advantage. This study analyzes factors affecting employee
empowerment in Sistan and Baluchestan University- Iran and introduces strategies to
improve it. In this regard, we describe approaches, effective factors and
dimensions, and investigate different ways of empowerment as well. This study
evaluates job enrichment, devolution, performance-based rewards, participative
management, suggestion system, team-work formation and participation in goal-
setting as the main ways of empowerment. Meanwhile, the results confirmed all of
the above categories. Finally, a model is proposed for employee empowerment by
using the results.