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Abstract
Faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasing
productivity and optimum use of their individual and group
abilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. Organizational
culture is the main component of decision making in universities
and one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e.
meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). Given
the importance of these two variables and their possible relations;
and as the main purpose of this study, the supposed correlation
between Iran agricultural colleges’ faculties’ psychological empowerment
and their organizational culture was investigated. So
this descriptive correlation study surveyed agricultural faculties to
measure their psychological empowerment and also organizational
culture in their colleges. A multi-stage random Sampling approach
was implemented. The national sample consisted of 404 faculty
members. Factor analysis determined three components of organizational
culture (i.e. team-orientations, empowerment and capability
development). All components of psychological empowerment
were significantly and positively correlated with team-orientations
and empowerment while the capability development was only significantly
correlated with trust.