The Effect of Employee Empowerment on Employee Job Satisfaction: the case of Lutheran World Federation Employees.
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2016-05
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Addis Ababa University
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The main purpose of this study was to explore the relation and effect of empowerment on employees’ job satisfaction. The research has been designed as a case study employing descriptive statistics and spear man correlation. Both primary and secondary data were used in the research. A survey questionnaire with five point Likert scale and open ended question was a main tool for gathering primary data about employee empowerment and job satisfaction. A total of 145 (81% of the population) participants in the Head office and field office participated in filling the questionnaires. These participants were selected using random sampling method. The findings of this study indicated that respondents have medium/moderate job satisfaction and empowered to moderate or medium level. The correlation result indicates there is positive relationship between employee empowerment and employee job satisfaction but not strong or significant. The study also show that the level of empowerment and Job satisfaction varies with respondents demographic characteristics like age, education level, experience and work states. T
So in LWF empowering of employees means increasing job satisfaction. So the LWF management should understand this and work on employee empowerment to the higher level to get higher level of job satisfaction by employees. However, some aspects require improvement by the management as low mean rating obtained from their scores. These includes, giving incentives to work hard and pay competitive salary , introduce promotion strategy ,assess and increase benefit packages ,work on job security maintaining mechanism, prepare good working environment where employees can use their ability and skills and develop good employee feedback mechanisms.
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Human Resource