A Study on Employee Empowerment, Work Performance and its allied factors among Teaching and Non-Teaching Women Staffs in Puducherry
Keywords:
Employee Empowerment, Organizational Culture, Workplace Relationships, Work Life Balance, Job Satisfaction, Work PerformanceAbstract
Employee empowerment refers to the addition of extra powers to the employees working in an organization. This study studies about the employee empowerment and the work performance of the women staffs of educational institutions in Puducherry region. Employee Empowerment, Organizational Culture, Workplace relationships, Work life balance, Job Satisfaction and Work Performance are the factors taken for the study. For this purpose, the samples were collected from 100 women teaching and non-teaching staffs working in various schools in Puducherry U.T. Collected data were analyzed using Pearson Inter correlation and multiple regression analysis. It has been discovered that organizational culture has a strong relationship with employee empowerment and job satisfaction is the most influencing factor of work performance of the employees. The Suggestions such as close monitoring on empowered employees and making groups among the workers to improve workplace relationships has been provided in order to increase the work performance of the women employees.
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