The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the psychological factors of empowerment and organizational entrepreneurship of the employees and to provide the necessary guidelines and recommendations according to the results of the research to the managers and decision makers of the organization by providing the necessary ground for enhancing the ability of the employees for organizational entrepreneurship. The population of this study consisted of 63 individuals from the General Administration of Social Security of Mazandaran Province in Iran that 54 people of them were selected by using Krejcie & Morgan s' table and random sampling. The tool for collecting information in this research is library method and field method (questionnaire) that is used Bordbar's 29-items questionnaire for evaluating organizational entrepreneurship and Spritezer's 15-items questionnaire to measure the psychological factors of empowerment. In examining the sub- hypotheses of the research, it was found that, apart from the meaningful dimension, there is a significant relationship between the other Psychological dimensions of empowerment with organizational entrepreneurship. According to the results of the research, officials should provide appropriate conditions for the psychological dimension of employees to create and strengthen their entrepreneurship.
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