The Impact of Job Satisfaction and Employee Empowerment on Loyalty Amongst the Employees, Case of A Private University in Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Omar Falah Saleem 1 and Karwan Hushyar Sherwani 2
1,2 Business and Management Department, Tishk International University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Correspondence: [email protected], [email protected]
Received: September 25, 2022 Revised: October 18, 2022 Published: October 30, 2022
Abstract
Currently, some researchers claim that job satisfaction, employee empowerment, and employee
loyalty are related to each other. This research aims to investigate if that theory holds true in the
case of a private university in Erbil. A quantitative method following the Deductive approach to
theory development was used to create a questionnaire as a method of data collection that measured
job satisfaction, employee empowerment, and loyalty. It was sent out to 300 employees via the
official email of the university, and the researchers received 68 responses. Then the sample
answers were used to calculate the results. The researchers used a reliability test (Cronbach Alpha),
correlation, descriptive analysis, and linear regression analysis. The research results revealed that
Employee Empowerment and Job satisfaction significantly affect employee loyalty in the case of
the private university in the Kurdistan region or Iraq.
Keywords: Employee Empowerment, Employee Satisfaction, Loyalty, Linear Regression, Higher
education, Kurdistan region.
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Saleem, O. F., & Sherwani, K. H. (2022). The Impact of Job Satisfaction and Employee Empowerment on Loyalty Amongst the Employees, Case of A Private University in Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Eurasian Journal of Management & Social Sciences, 3(3), 22-33. https://doi.org/10.23918/ejmss.V3i3p22
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