The Relationship Between Psychological Empowerment and Employee Performance: A Study on the Aviation Sector
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8380499Keywords:
Aviation Sector, Employee Performance, Psychological EmpowermentAbstract
Psychological empowerment has become an important tool in meeting the needs of employees with creative, innovative, and flexible attributes in recent years. In this study, the relationship between psychological empowerment and employee performance was examined, and how demographic characteristics differ for both variables was statistically analyzed. A survey conducted on 385 employees of one of the leading companies in the aviation sector in Turkey formed the data for this research. Hypotheses were subjected to analysis through t-tests and correlation tests, and the findings were interpreted in terms of the potential of psychological empowerment to enhance employee performance. The results obtained from the analyses conducted in the scope of this study indicate that psychological empowerment contributes positively to employee performance.
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