Determining the correlation between employee empowerment and organizational commitment according to the departments and demographical measures

This research has been realized to determine the correlation between employee empowerment and organizational commitment according to the departments and demographical measures. Organizational commitment (Mowday, Steers and Porter, 1979), psychological empowerment (Spreitzer, 1995) and employee empowerment (Niehoff, Moorman, Blakely and Fuller 2001) scales are applied on 214 employees. Collected datas are analyzed with SPSS. According to the results, there is correlation between employee empowerment and organizational commitment. In service departments there is stronger correlation than production departments. Futhermore, according to the gender and age variables, there is correlation between employee empowerment and organizational commiment but eucational level and professional exprience variables are not effective.