an investigation of the relationship between empowerment and organizational and professional commitment among the employees of housing bank in north khorasan province

the aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between empowerment andorganizational and professional commitmentamong the employees of housing bank in the province of northkhorasan. this research study follows a correlational descriptive-survey design. the statistical population of the present study consists of all the staff at the branches of housing bank in northkhorasan and this population is comprised solely of 130 participants. no sampling was donedue to the small number of employees at the branches of housing bank in the province of northkhorasan and 130 participants were studied altogether. the data of the present study were collected through the library and field method. for the variables of empowerment and organizational and professional commitment, the standard questionnaires developed by spreitzer(1995), alan and meyer (1998) and klayman and henning (2000) wereemployed. their reliability was calculated by cronbach's alpha as0.902, 0.892 and 0.842 respectively. the content validityof the study was approved by professors and experts. moreover, to analyze the data of the present study, factor analysis was done in spss and structural equation modeling was used in lisrel 8.8 to examine the research hypotheses. the results indicate that there is a significant relationship between empowerment and organizational and professional commitment among the employees at housing bank in the province of northkhorasan.