Document Type : Original Article

Author

Library director of the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands

Abstract

The objective of the research is to measure the relation of organizational empowerment and competitive performance in educational researches and agricultural promotions libraries.The method used in this project is analytical survey and population are all from librarians (104 people) in which 100 persons have completed the survey.Research tools consist of two certained surveys. Research findings: total average score of organizational empowerment in the society were 3.76 out of 5. With regard to average financial performance the obtained records were 0.229 lower than theoretical average. These results showed that the more development in competitive performance of libraries will cause the better empowerment. In case of competitive performance the scores presented from women was higher than men scores. There was no difference due to scores of various age groups and comments of different educational groups regarding competitive performance and records of competitive performance in different groups’ point of view due to job history. Due to participants in the field of librarianship we can say that the competitive performance of case study libraries is significantly higher than similar performance for non librarianship fields

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