Total and Partial Effect of Administrative Empowerment on the Dimensions of Job Performance: A Field Study at the Private Hospitals in the Capital Sana'a, Yemen

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the total and partial effect of administrative empowerment on the performance dimensions at the private hospitals in the capital Sana’a, Yemen and its role in enhancing and improving the performance of the employees. The study adopted the descriptive and analytical design. A questionnaire was used for collecting the data. After the analysis of the data, the study findings revealed that there was a significant positive effect of administrative empowerment on the job performance and its dimensions. Results also showed that there was a positive effect of empowerment dimensions on the job performance. Delegation was not among the other empowerment dimensions that had an effect on job performance. The study recommended that attention should be paid to the aspects of administrative empowerment which may provide employees with an atmosphere of freedom such as delegation and participation to proceed to advanced stages of administrative empowerment. The study also stressed the need to adopt constructs that measure the possibility of empowering employees in private hospitals based on the criteria of periodic performance evaluation. It is important to train employees who are very close to customers.

Keywords: Administrative empowerment, Job performance, Private hospitals.