O contributo do compromisso organizacional e do empowerment psicológico para as organizações positivas

In the current competitive environment, the centralization of power and the lack of autonomy of employees are characteristics that prevent the development of organizations. With this emerged the need to verify the use of empowerment as a tool of power and, consequently, of commitment to the organization. This study had as main objetive to verify the contribution of the organizational commitment and the psychological empowerment for positive organizations. The empirical component was supported by an exploratory, quantitative, descriptive-correlational study, having, for this porpuse, constituted a sample of 205 participants from three organizations with the same (average) dimension , in the industrial sector. A questionnaire was applied, where the first part is intended to analyze sociodemographic data, and another to measure psychological empowerment and organizational commitment through two scales (Spreitzer, 1995; Rego & Souto, 2002, 2004). According to the results, the dimensions of the two variables have significant relationships with each other and contribute positively to the perception of employees about commitment and psychological empowerment.In summary, in general, both in theoretical and empirical terms, it is verified that these two variables make a significant contribution to positive organizations, given that they are essential tools for their success and for the satisfaction of their elements.