TY - JOUR ID - 53695 TI - Explaining effective factors on female’s psychological empowerment in information and knowledge services JO - Woman in Development & Politics JA - JWDP LA - en SN - 2538-3124 AU - Nakhoda, Maryam AU - Rahimian, Samane AU - Esmaieli Givi, Mohammadreza AD - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, University of Tehran, Iran AD - Master of Information Science and Knowledge Studies, University of Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2014 PY - 2014 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 469 EP - 488 KW - female emloyees KW - information and knowledge centers KW - Psychological Empowerment DO - 10.22059/jwdp.2014.53695 N2 - The purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. This paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. First by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, nine interviews with female managers were done. Results showed that eight factors were effeted on psychological empowerment. Professional knowledge, modeling and motivation were added to the conceptual model. Finally, assimilation of qualitive results and sprietzer’s model made conceptual model. In the quantitative approach, the population of study was 137 female employees of Tehran’s public libraries as an information and knowledge centers. The researchers designed the questionnaire including factors for data collection. Cronbach‘s alpha for this questionnaire was 90%. PLS software and structural equation modeling was used for data analysis. The findings indicated that the most effective factor on the female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services were individual factors including motivation, modeling, knowledge/job skills and self-esteem. Then organizational factors including importance of the team trust among team, perceived team effectiveness, participative decision-making and finally group factors such as role resolution, span of control, access to information, participative climate, access to resources and organizational support were effective on female employees’ psychological empowerment in information and knowledge services. UR - https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_53695.html L1 - https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_53695_beb94a5f839cac84fc91810f2ce6c5cb.pdf ER -