Impact of Psychological Empowerment on Employees' Performance

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of psychological empowerment on employees' performance. A questionnaire was used in order to collect data on the factors that affect employees' performance from employees of banks and university teachers of Bahawalnagar and Bahawalpur of Punjab, Pakistan. A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, consisting of 20 items, divided into four designed parts. Different cities of the district of Bahawalnagar in Pakistan were selected on a random sampling basis. A total of 200 questionnaires were circulated, and we received 200, and the response rate was 100%. The data collected and analyzed through descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, and ANOVA independent sample t-tests covered 200 participants of different cities of Bahawalnagar. We can say that all the variables have moderate positive correlation according to correlation results. The descriptive statistics result shows that respondents agree to our questions. And regression analysis, which tells us how intensely an independent variable impacts a dependent variable, shows that empowerment factors like meaningfulness, authority, and self-effectiveness have an impact on an employee's performance. The major limitation of this study is that it covers employees of banks of a few cities only. Another limitation of this study is that other variables of psychological empowerment also have an impact on employees' performance not included due to shortage of time.