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Arab Journal of Administration المجلة العربية للإدارة

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying the impact of the activities supporting organizational innovation on Psychological empowerment of Jordanian industrial companies workers, . The main components of the supporting activities are represented in participation, training and development, organizational culture, incentives, suitable leadership, teams work. While the Psychological empowerment components are: the Meaningfulness, the competencies, Self – Determination, and the cognitive impact, Findings are based on data obtained through a questionnaire prepared for this purpose were distributed to workers of 20 industrial Jordanian companies. (185) questionnaire was obtained to identify suitable for statistical analysis. The study found a set of results, the most important: the existence of a significant Impact of Supporting Activities of the Organizational Innovation on the achieving Psychological empowerment of Jordanian industrial companies workers, And formed the suitable leadership the main roll of Supporting Activities of the Organizational Innovation, followed by organizational culture, then teams work & participation, then incentives and, finally, and the training and development. In the same time the employee competencies formed the main impact on achieving the employee Psychological empowerment, followed by the cognitive impact. And there’s difference in respondent (perception of psychological empowerment), that related to demographical factors like experience & educational level. The study found a set of recommendations for the Jordanian industrial companies, including: Establishing of organizational unities in the companies for the interest of new creative and innovational procedures, necessity of synchronizing between the muscle works and mental work for importance the completeness between them in the innovational process. Encouraging acceptance the idea of employee empowerment through providing the structural empowerment requirement, as the Supporting Activities of the Organizational Innovation, providing special financial support, and finally necessity activation of the interaction and the group work by the companies administration through encouragement establishing of team work and committees for supporting innovation and studding innovational ideas.

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