Proposed Model of Empowerment of Human Resources for Productivity of National Iranian Gas Company

The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate a human resource empowerment model for the productivity of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), which was done with a combined approach. This research is a survey in terms of purpose, and applied in terms of its nature, and in terms of paradigm, it is a combined-exploratory research. The data collection method has been library and field study. In the qualitative section, during the interviews with 18 industry experts, the most important indicators affecting human resource empowerment were extracted, including: managerial factor, group factor, individual factor, environmental factor, structural factor, organizational factor and ethical factor. In the quantitative part, to determine the relative importance of the model variables, a questionnaire was designed and distributed among a sample of 337 employees of the National Iranian Gas Company. The important factors were managerial, group, organizational, environmental, ethical, individual and structural factors.