The Relationship Between Good Governance and Structural Empowerment Components in Employees of Guilan University of Medical Sciences

Abstract Introduction: Good governance theory has been welcomed with emphasis on information transparency and support for in-organizational information in organizational contexts between management and staff since the late 1990s. Structural empowerment also works by empowering employees with useful information in the field of work. Objective: To measure the relationship between good governance and structural empowerment components among employees of Guilan University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: The research is an applied and descriptive survey. The statistical population of the study consisted of the staff of Guilan University of Medical Sciences, which was estimated by cluster sampling in a sample size of 282 people. The data collection tool was a questionnaire of 23 questions of organizational empowerment (Rachel & Wendy, 2003) and a questionnaire of 35 questions of good governance of Moghimi and Ramadan (2011). The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.86 by Cronbach's alpha and the validity of the questionnaire was verified by content validity method and confirmed by experts. To analyze the collected data, the path analysis method was used by statistical software LISREL 8.56 to measure the causal relationship between the variables. Results: The results of this study showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between good governance and structural empowerment components in Guilan University of Medical Sciences, and good governance is 0.77, 0.69 and 0.83, explaining the components of a dynamic structural framework Control of workplace decision and Fluidity in information sharing. Conclusion: Considering the results we can conclude that good governance and empowerment of the organization are in one direction and in line with the promotion of good governance, the structural empowerment components could bepromoted. Conflict of interest: non declared