The Role of Administrative Empowerment in Employee’s Job Satisfaction: An Exploratory Study at the General Administration of Baghdad Medical City

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify the role of administrative empowerment in enhancing job satisfaction for workers in the general administration of the city of medicine. Where the city of medicine was chosen as a sample because there is a real problem in verifying the hypotheses and objectives of this research. The problem of the research in the lack of adoption of the organization under discussion included the use of contemporary administrative trends and not adopting them as part of its work philosophy, including administrative empowerment, which can be negatively reflected in the level of job satisfaction for employees. The questionnaire was adopted in collecting data, which consisted of two sides. The first side dealt with the personal data of the research sample employees, and the second side dealt with the paragraphs of the two research variables (administrative empowerment and job satisfaction). Participated in the questionnaire survey (213) employees. The quantitative statistical method was used to analyze the data based on the (SPSS.23) program. The research reached a set of conclusions, including the existence of a direct relationship between administrative empowerment and job satisfaction for employees, because empowerment is the variable that leads to the existence of a feeling of job satisfaction for employees, and among the most prominent recommendations is the need for the organization’s management to adopt awareness programs directed to employees, especially managers at all administrative levels. On the importance of contemporary administrative trends in administrative work.