چکیده:
Empowerment has a significant impact on managerial and organizational efficiency and effectiveness, and on the other hand, according to many researchers and theorists, the role that entrepreneurial individuals play in creating competitive advantage is noteworthy. If conditions are provided so that employees can manifest and achieve entrepreneurial behaviors within the organization, it can promise the attainment of an entrepreneurial organization. The benefits of workplace spirituality include increased creativity, increased honesty and trust, increased organizational commitment, improved employee job attitudes, increased job satisfaction, job involvement, etc. All these factors directly and indirectly lead to improved performance, profitability, and organizational effectiveness. This article attempts to examine the impact of psychological empowerment dimensions and workplace spirituality on the emergence of entrepreneurial behaviors in the Small Industries and Industrial Estates Organization of Iran. Based on the conceptual model obtained from the combination of three variables—psychological empowerment, workplace spirituality, and the emergence of entrepreneurial behaviors—six hypotheses were formulated and examined using Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical tests, Spearman rank correlation test, Friedman test, and regression analysis. Finally, the research model was examined based on path analysis. The research method in this study is descriptive of the correlational type; therefore, after collecting data through a 51-question questionnaire, the findings were analyzed. The statistical population is the Small Industries and Industrial Estates Organization of Iran, and 148 employees from this organization, located in seven provinces (Tehran, Fars, Isfahan, Semnan, North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Khorasan Razavi), were selected as the statistical sample. The findings show that there is a positive and significant relationship between the three variables investigated in this research.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This article attempts to investigate the impact of psychological empowerment dimensions and workplace spirituality on the emergence of entrepreneurial behaviors in the Small Industries and Industrial Estates Organization of Iran.
Therefore, the authors of this article seek to investigate the relationship between psychological empowerment and the emergence of entrepreneurial behaviors among employees of the Small Industries and Industrial Estates Organization; they intend to examine the relationship between these two variables with workplace spirituality as a mediating variable; to this end, first the literature of these three concepts and also the results of various studies in this regard are reviewed, and hypotheses are formulated.
Conceptual Model of the Research: Risk-taking Competence Achievement motivation Entrepreneurial Empowerment Meaningfulness behaviors psychological Independence Trust Workplace Determination and will Work Autonomy Employees' sense of cohesion Alignment with values Meaning in the environment Effectiveness Figure 2: Conceptual model of the research ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ 1.
Since researchers in every field of study are expected to consider the concept of theoretical contribution and fulfill their research's theoretical share in creating their research works, the effort of the present research in presenting a new option and mediating variable 2 was carried out in such a way as to play an innovative role and contribute to the entrepreneurship literature; in other words, our effort in the breadth of the statistical population at the national level and the statement of a new mediating variable (workplace spirituality) in the relationships between the emergence of entrepreneurial behaviors and psychological empowerment, with the aim of identifying and revealing the roles of different individuals, times, and places in the relationships and processes of existing theories, has been undertaken; thus, such an effort can be considered a type of theoretical innovation, and a contribution, however small, can be considered for the theoretical participation of this research.
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