Mediating Role of Empowerment Between Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment

Empowerment is a mechanism to achieve participatory management and leads to the revealing of human potentials. Job satisfaction has been defined as the result of employees’ perceptions toward their job description. Organizational commitment is a view toward employees’ loyalty to the organization which are increased due to the employees’ participation. The aim of this research is to consider the relations among the mentioned variables and the relations among demographical characteristics (age, gender, and education level) with these four main variables of the research in order to improve the processes of empowerment, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment in an organization. The statistical population of this research consists of the employees of the central office of Nippo Batteries pvt ltd from which 270 people were selected as the sample, using simple random sampling method. The obtained results of this research showed that there is a significant relation between empowerment and job satisfaction, between empowerment and organizational commitment in considering the demographic characteristics like age, sexuality, designation and education level.