Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine relation between employees’ participation in decisions making and their empowerment in Telecommunication Company Iran subsidiary of Mazanderan Province. 250 employees from the Telecommunication Company Iran subsidiary of Mazanderan Province participated in this study. A Spearman's correlation analysis was used to investigate correlation between employees' participation in decision makings and psychological empowerment among employee's Telecommunication Company of Mazanderan Province. The findings of this study have shown that higher levels of PDM are associated with significantly higher Competence, Meaning, Impact and Self-determination (p_value>0.05). A significant positive correlation was found between employees’ participation decisions making and total dimension empowerment. Coefficient correlation PDM and empowerment is 0.71 that indicates strong relations between two variables.

Key words: Participation in decision making, empowerment, sense of competence, sense of meaning, sense of self- determination, sense of impact,access to information, organizational reinforcements, influence and control.