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 Volume 9, Issue 7 (July 2022), Pages: 194-203

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 Original Research Paper

 The impact of administrative empowerment on the job satisfaction of employees

 Author(s): Samer Ahmed Al Naggar *

 Affiliation(s):

 Department of Public Administration, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6005-7100

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.07.020

 Abstract:

Recognizing the significance of administrative empowerment and job satisfaction is vital in improving the organization's human resource efficiency. So, the purpose of this study is to see how administrative empowerment affects employee satisfaction at the Directorate of Health in the Northern Border Region. The study used descriptive and analytical methodology. The questionnaire was distributed to 167 employees found in the Directorate of Health in the Northern Border Region. The study found several results, the most important of which is the existence of the impact of administrative empowerment with its five dimensions (participation in decision-making-effective communication-employee motivation-training, and continual education-teamwork) explained by 67% of the variance in the level of job satisfaction of the employees. The main recommendation of the study was to strengthen teamwork, consolidate cooperation, linking the material and moral incentives with a set of objective standards to increase employees’ motivation towards teamwork and thus increase job satisfaction besides, increasing opportunities for participation in policymaking. Moreover, efforts should be exerted to establish robust internal communication channels that serve various administrative fields and enable workers to increase their capabilities and job skills.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Administrative empowerment, Employee motivation, Job satisfaction

 Article History: Received 22 January 2022, Received in revised form 12 April 2022, Accepted 2 May 2022

 Acknowledgment 

This project was funded by the deanship of Scientific Research, Northern Border University for their financial support under grant No. BA-2017-1-8-F7475. The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks DSR's technical and financial support.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Al Naggar SA (2022). The impact of administrative empowerment on the job satisfaction of employees. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(7): 194-203

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