Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between psychological empowerment and employee performance in healthcare workers during the COVID 19 pandemic in Turkey. The study is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The research data were collected with a questionnaire consisting of the participants' introductory information form, the Psychological Empowerment Scale and the Employee Performance Scale. The data were obtained from 580 healthcare workers through the online questionnaire created in Google Forms. In the study, it was found that the psychological empowerment and its sub-dimensions of impact, significance and competence had a positive effect on employee performance, but the autonomy sub-dimension did not have a statistically significant effect. It has been seen that the dimension with the most impact on employee performance is the sub-dimension of competence. In addition, it was determined that the average scores of the participants regarding psychological empowerment and employee performance showed statistically significant differences according to gender, age, occupation and working time. In the study, it was concluded that the psychological empowerment of health workers would positively affect their performance. It is thought that improving the competence of health workers, their effects and the meanings they attribute to their professions may contribute to increasing their performance.

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