Psychological empowerment and employees' administrative creativity: new evidence from egyptian public and private universities

الملخص EN

Empowerment plays a crucial role in boosting the success of organizations, especially psychological empowerment, which acts as a driving force for employees' task initiation and persistence.

The argument that psychological empowerment and employee creativity are directly and positively linked has received great attention in the literature, especially recently.

The main purpose of the research is to examine the role of psychological empowerment in promoting the administrative creativity of female employees in a number of Egyptian public and private universities.

The analytical and quantitative work in the research is based on an online survey, where respondents are selected using the non-probability judgmental sampling method.

For empirical testing, correlation and multiple regression analysis are used.

Empirical results show that how women are psychologically empowered affects their administrative creativity positively.

Most of the studies have tackled the positive benefits of women's empowerment and ignored its consequences on women's administrative creativity.

Besides, little research has been empirically conducted on working women's psychological empowerment, especially in Egypt.

It could be concluded that the competence, self-determination, and impact dimensions were the three main psychological empowerment dimensions that positively affected their administrative creativity.

The other dimension, meaning, had an insignificant effect on administrative creativity.