The impact of psychological empowerment on individual creativity among Al Aqsa University’s employees

Other Title(s)

أثر التمكين النفسي على الإبداع الفردي لدى موظفي جامعة الأقصى

Dissertant

Saymah, Mahmud Mustaf Abd al-Ghani

Thesis advisor

Abu al-Rus, Sami Ali

University

Islamic University

Faculty

Faculty of Commerce

Department

Department of Business Administration

University Country

Palestine (Gaza Strip)

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2018

English Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the impact of psychological empowerment on individual creativity among a representative sample of Al Aqsa University employees.

The study explored up to what extent employees perceived themselves to be psychologically empowered.

It also tests the relationship between the dimensions of psychological empowerment (meaning, competence, self-determination and impact) and the dimension of individual creativity.

Descriptive analytical approach was used to conduct this study, and a questionnaire was modified and used.

A stratified random sampling model was used to distribute 256 questionnaire sheets to both academic and administrative employees, 209 were completed and returned, with a response rate of 81.6%.

The most important results are: 1.

Employees of Al Aqsa University have a high perception that they are psychologically empowered, despite the substantial employment and social challenges.

2.

All the dimension of the psychological empowerment was highly impacting the perception of individual creativity; the highest was the competence dimension and the lowest was self-determination.

3.

Most of the employees at Al Aqsa University considered themselves, to a high extent, as individually creative.

4.

The study revealed several areas for improvement to improve psychological empowerment, such as improving self-determination ability and raising the awareness of the university impact on community development.

5.

There is no significant differences in respondent's answers toward applying psychological empowerment on individual creativity according to their gender and social status , but there is significant differences in respondent's answers according to their age above 50 years , job classification , educational level with PhD degree and years of experience with more than 25 years .

The most important recommendations are: 1.

Modifying the hieratical structure of decision making; therefore the employees would appreciate more space of autonomy and self –determination.

2.

Introducing the psychological empowerment instrument as one of the tools to determine the quality of human resources development at academic institutions.

3.

Improving the awareness of the employees‟ about the role that the university plays to participate in the development of the Palestinian community.

4.

Creating an incentive system that reward and encourage creative thinking, and integrating creative thinking as one component of the annual performance evaluation.

Main Subjects

Business Administration

Topics

• Universities
• Creativity
• Empowerment
• Employees
• Palestine

No. of Pages

120

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-911788