Effects of demographic variables on employee empowerment: A study on central public sector enterprises in India Das Simanchala1,*, Associate Professor, Maharana Tapas Ranjan2, Associate Professor 1Department of Business Administration, K L University, Green Fields, Vaddeswaram, Guntur-522502, Andhra Pradesh, India 2(Marketing), School of Management Studies, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha, India *Corresponding author email id: drsdas2001@gmail.com
Abstract The main purpose of the study is to investigate the effect of demographics on employee's sense of empowerment in some selected public sector undertakings in India. The four dimensions of psychological empowerment, for example meaning, competence, self-determination and impact, and the seven dimensions of structural empowerment for example locus of control, self-esteem, role clarity, autonomy, information and communication, reward system and skills and knowledge are identified as independent variables with organisational effectiveness and its four system variables as the dependent variable. This study seeks to find out the effect of demographic factors like education, employee grade and length of service on employee's feeling of empowerment. The results show that the demographic factors except education do not significantly influence the perception of empowerment in central public sector enterprises in India. Top Keywords Psychological empowerment, Structural empowerment, Public sector enterprises, Organisational effectiveness, Locus of control, Self-determination, Autonomy. Top |