Psychological Empowerment and Workplace Learning: An Empirical Study of Saudi Telecom Company
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Learning in the workplace cannot take place in vacuum. Workplace learning, while very important, requires an important requirement and conditions. Employees' psychological empowerment is predicted to act as the most important antecedents for workplace learning for 21st century workforce. Hence, this study aims at testing the impact of psychological empowerment in particular on the workplace learning in the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) in Saudi Arabia. Two instruments were included in this study: psychological empowerment scales developed by Spreitzer76 and Workplace Adaptation Questionnaire (WAQ) developed by Morton.48 A survey questionnaire was used to reflect a simple model of the presumed relationships. A sample of 170 employees working at STC has participated in the survey and data were collected and analyzed using means, regressions and correlations to test such impact. Cronbach's alphas verified the reliability of the overall instrument as well as the sections of the survey.The study found that psychological empower-ment was positively related to workplace learning. In particular, self-determination and workplace learning had the strongest relationship. Based on these findings, the implications for Human Resource Development (HRD) theory and practice and recommendations for future research were discussed.