Teachers' Empowerment of Educational Administration Perspective (Investigating the Role of Individual Self-efficacy; Knowledge Transfer and Quality of Work Life)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• habibeh najafi ¹
• adel zahed babolan ²
• ali khaleghkhah ²
• mahdi moienikia ²

¹ university of ardabili mohaghrgh

² university of ardabili mohaghegh

Abstract

Human resource empowerment is process of enhance the sense of self-efficacy among organization members by identifying and eliminating factors that is caused weakness in strength. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of individual self-efficacy, knowledge transfer and quality of work life in teacher empowerment. The research is correlational based on structural equation modeling and objective aspects is applied. the population is included all high school teachers of Tabriz to2.747people in2016years. that samples was estimated according of Kerjsy - Morgan table to335people.the sampling was done of three-stage cluster randomly.data collection tools is includeof four standardized questionnaire" Sherer;s individual self- fficacy(1982),empowerment Martin(2001),DeCaster etal;s knowledge Transfer(2008)and the quality of working life Elgan and et al (2014)"that theier reliability and validity reviewed and approved. data were analyzed by Amos24software.The results showed that individual self-efficacy has a significant positive correlation with quality of work life(t=7.798; p < 0/01); knowledge transfer has a significant positive correlation with quality of work life(t= 7.541; p < 0/01);knowledge transfer has a significant positive correlation with empowerment(t= 6.344; p < 0/01);quality of work life has a significant positive correlation with empowerment(t=7.211; p < 0/01) and individual self-efficacy has a significant positive correlation with empowerment(t = 5.980; p < 0/01) and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model is a perfect fit (CFI=0.98; RMSEA= 0.04; X2= 8357.99; df = 5531; p < 0.01).According to the results,in the survey of the direction effect, knowledge transfer had the greatest influence on teachers empowerment from three variables;therefore, education system responsers should be puted on priority programs of strategies for knowledge creation,knowledge development and use it.

Keywords

• Empowerment
• Quality of Working Life
• Knowledge Transfer
• Individual Self-Efficacy

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