Study of Effects of Organizational Learning Capability on Employee Empowerment through Mediating Role of Managerial Competency (A Study on Payame Noor University in Lorestan Province)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of organizational learning capability on employee empowerment by explaining the mediating role of managerial competency. This was a descriptive field survey, in which the statistical population included 200 employees working at 10 branches of Payame Noor University in Lorestan Province. The Krejcie and Morgan table was employed to select 127 participants as sample through the relative stratified random sampling method. Onag’s Organizational Learning Capability Scale (2014), Spreitzer’s Employee Empowerment Scale (1995), and Griffin’s Managerial Competency Scale (1994) were used for research purposes. The validity of the questionnaires was approved through formal and content validity, and reliability was approved through Cronbach's alpha for organizational learning capability 0.721, employee empowerment 0.764, and managerial competency 0.752. Data analysis was performed in SPSS and Amos through linear and multivariate regression tests and structural equation modeling for measurement and structural sections. According to the SEM results applied to the data of 127 questionnaires collected from the statistical population, organizational learning capability had a direct positive significant effect (path coefficient= 0.81) and an indirect effect through the mediating role of managerial competency (path coefficient= 0.93) on employee empowerment. Organizational learning capability also affected managerial competency (path coefficient= 0.38), which had a positive significant effect on employee empowerment (path coefficient= 0.33).