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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship among employees’ empowerment, organizational commitment and job commitment in Physical Education Organization of Tehran province. The statistical population included all personnel in Physical Education Organization of Tehran province out of which 150 subjects were selected through stratified random sampling. a) Spreitzer's (1995) empowerment questionnaire, b) organizational commitment questionnaire (Mowday et al., 1979), and c) job commitment questionnaire adapted from Blau (1985); Landy and Guion (1970) were used to collect the data. Correlation analysis and multiple regressions indicated were used to analyze the data. The results showed a positive significant relationship among employees’ empowerment, organizational commitment, and job commitment and also between organizational commitment and job commitment. The findings of multiple regression indicated that ‘meaningfulness’ and ‘impact’ turned out to be significant in predicting organizational commitment and job commitment. Accordingly, managers are recommended to apply empowerment techniques in order to improve organizational commitment and job commitment.
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