Soheila HASHEMZEHI - Mehralborz University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran,
Saeed ROUHANI - Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Nowadays, using modern technologies and information technology has made university undergo major changes and that is why universities adopt a knowledge-oriented and scientific approach. In fact, the role of development of information and communication technology in the growth and development of any society and in promotion of Empowerment of organizations, including universities, is undeniable. Given the advancements of information technology, it is necessary to study the role of these factors and their impacts on employees’ job Empowerment process. The present study has aimed to review the role of information and communication technology in the improvement of Empowerment of administrative employees of Islamic Azad University of Zahedan. The statistical population of this study has been composed of all of the administrative employees of Islamic Azad University of Zahedan (260 employees). 152 of these employees have been selected using the Morgan’s table method. At first, the application of information technology in organizations was reviewed and after reassuring that it is applied in the organizations under study, the effect of information technology on the Empowerment of employees was studied. According to previous studies, the indexes associated with the Empowerment of organizational employees were identified and divided into six groups. Then, a questionnaire was used as a tool to collect the necessary information and ultimately, the collected data were analyzed using statistical tests. Also, the SPSS software was used for analyzing the research data. The obtained results indicate that using information technologies in the Islamic Azad University of Zahedan has led to the Empowerment of employees.

Empowerment, Information Technology, Employees, Islamic Azad University of Zahedan