Evaluating the Relationship of Human Resource Psychological Empowerment with Privatization (Empirical Study)
Ebrahim Samipour Giri, Sajjad Samipour

Abstract
This study is aimed to examine the relationship between privatization and empowerment of employees in hospitals of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. The effects of indicators of "managerial strategies", "selfusefulness sources" and "organizational conditions" have been measured on the psychological empowerment as intervening variables of it. In order to analyze the data, correlation-descriptive method using factor analysis by the methods of main factors and path analysis; and recommendations would be provided to increase the employees’ empowerment in hospitals of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences and also other sectors of university. The questionnaire has been used for measuring the factors of privatization and empowerment. Using multi-phase random sampling method, 400 employees out of 7500 ones of hospitals of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences were select ed as the sample of the study. The results showed that there was a significant positive relationship between privatization and empowerment. Moreover, there was a significant positive relationship between intervening factors (organizational condition, managerial strategies) and empowerment (except the factor of self-usefulness sources).

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