The Relationship between Staff Empowerment and Competitive Advantage in a Variety of Products, Case Study: Vehicle Axle Manufacturing Company

In today's competitive world, an important tool for the development and survival of the organization and achieve the desired objectives and policies is the human element. Man's role in the organization and the approach to him will have a vital role in the success or failure of the Organization. By beginning of the third millennium, the role of human resources highlighted and now it is known as the only factor of success and sustainable competitive advantage for organizations. This study has been done with purpose of investigate the relationship between staff empowerment and competitive advantage in company's production variety in the vehicle axle manufacturing company, in which the concept of staff empowerment includes five dimensions of a sense of competency, a sense of having franchise, a sense of efficacy, a sense of being meaningful and a sense of trust in others and their relationship with the competitive advantage in a variety of company's products were assessed by questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed between population sample of 160 people who are all experts of the vehicle axle manufacturing company, and their number is 273.The research method is descriptive and correlational. The correlation coefficient test, regression test and Friedman ranking test was used to analyze the data by SPSS software. The results show that there is a positive and significant correlation between staff empowerment and competitive advantage in variety of company’s products and also represents a significant and positive correlation between all dimensions of staff empowerment and competitive advantage in a variety of company’s products. Between the dimensions of staff empowerment, a sense of being meaningful is most relevant to the competitive advantage in a variety of company’s products. The results show that among the dimensions of staff empowerment, only three dimensions (a sense of efficacy, a sense of being meaningful and a sense of trust in others) have a significant positive impact on the competitive advantage in a variety of organization's products. The results also show that among the dimensions of staff empowerment, the sense of competency is the highest rating and trust in others is the lowest rating.

Staff empowerment, Human resource management, Competitive advantage, Vehicle axle manufacturing company.