Personal- Environmental Fit and its Relationship to Psychological. Empowerment
Abstract
The research aims to identify the correlation between the perceived personal environmental conformity and psychological empowerment among the employees of the University of Al-Qadisiyah, in order to achieve this aim, the researcher selected (400) male and female employees at the University of Al-Qadisiyah, using a stratified random method with a proportional distribution, to whom was applied the Perceived Personal Environmental Congruence Scale that the researcher built according to Christoph Brown’s theory (2000, Kristof- Brown) in its final form, and this scale consists of (28) items, and the researcher has also built a psychological empowerment scale according to the theory of Kretchen Spritzer (Spretzer, 1995), which in its final form consisted of (19) paragraphs, and both scales had the characteristics of truthfulness and constancy. After using the appropriate statistical means, the researchers found that the employees of the University of Al-Qadisiyah have a perceived personal environmental match with their places of work and workplaces, and they enjoy psychological empowerment that enables them to perform their administrative tasks. The study also concluded that there is no statistically significant correlation between the two variables among the employees, and based on what the research results showed, the researchers made a number of important recommendations and suggestions.
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