Studying the Link between OrganizationalLearning and Employees’ Empowerment (CaseStudy: Qom Maskan Bank Selected Braches)

Present study aims at investigating the relationship between organizationallearning and employees’ empowerment. Organizational learning consists ofsuch components as structure, strategy culture, and perspective based onNeefe’s theory while employees’ empowerment is considered based onintroduced components by Spritz including effectiveness, significance,meritocracy, independence and trust. Present study is conducted by adescriptive survey and its population consists of management and employees inQom Maskan Bank selected branches. In this research, 120 questionnaires weredistributed by layered random sampling method and finally 100 ones werereturned and analyzed. To gather data, the first questionnaire involves 12 itemsbased on Neefe’s components while the second one (employees’empowerment) involves Spritz indices that their validity can be supported.Chronbach’s alpha value is used to measure reliability as 0.93 and 0.94 fororganizational learning and employees’ empowerment respectively. To analyzeresearch data in SPSS and Amos software packages, such techniques asSpearman correlation coefficient, regression analysis and structural equationsare used. The findings support research conceptual model and show that thereis an association between organizational learning and employees’empowerment.

Keywords:

Organizational learning , employees’ empowerment , banking industryand Maskan Bank