Empowerment of Administrators as Perceived by Faculty Members in The Yaha School of Built Environment, Haikou University of Economics

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The objectives of the study were 1) to study the empowerment of administrators as perceived by faculty members and 2) to compare the empowerment of administrators as perceived by faculty members in the Yaha School of Built Environment, Haikou University of Economics, classified by gender, age, education level and, work experience. The sample consisted of 86 faculty members, selected by using a five-point Likert scale questionnaire, achieving an IOC between 0.67-1.00 and a reliability value of 0.98.  The data was analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, One-way ANOVA, and LSD.

The results of the research were as follows: 1) the empowerment of administrators as perceived by faculty members were at a high level, in overall, and particular aspect, ranking from the highest to the lowest: Promoting informal power, Providing information, Providing resources, Providing support, Promoting formal power, and  Providing opportunity, 2) the perceptions of the empowerment of administrators, classified by all categories were not different in overall, however when consider in the specific aspect, classified by age was statistically significant at .01 level in the aspects of “Providing Resources” and “Promoting Informal Power”, while the differential education level was statistically significant at .01 level in “Providing Support”, and classified by work experience,  was statistically significant at the .05 level in “Providing Resources” and “Promoting Formal Power”.