Prediction of empowerment based on organizational structure and knowledge management among the employees of the General Department of Health Insurance of Fars province

Abstract

Background and purpose: Today, paying attention to the organizational structure in empowering employees is very important. The organizational structure is a set of ways through which the activities of the organization are divided and coordinated into known tasks. Therefore, the main goal of the research was to predict empowerment based on organizational structure and knowledge management among the employees of the General Department of Health Insurance of Fars province. Methodology: The descriptive research method was correlation type. For this purpose, among the General Department of Health Insurance of Fars province employees in 2014, 117 people were selected by simple random sampling method. The samples were evaluated using Short and Reinhardt's empowerment questionnaire, Robbins' organizational structure, and Joseph Haddad's knowledge management. The obtained data were evaluated using the regression method. Results: The results showed that organizational structure dimensions predict employee empowerment; It also predicts the dimensions of knowledge management and empowering employees. Conclusion: According to the correlation coefficient matrix, the influence of the two variables of knowledge creation and knowledge sharing did not affect the empowerment variable. Therefore, by performing regression, the presence of knowledge deployment and knowledge registration variables in the model was reported to be significant.