Occupational Characteristics of Physical Education Teachers and its Relationship to Empowerment

The present study has been established and implemented in order to identify occupational characteristics of physical education teachers and its relationship to empowerment of teachers in the city of Karaj. The type of study is a descriptive study and the statistical population of this study is consisted of all headmasters and teachers of the mentioned high schools, that 292 of them were selected as sample by Cochran's sample size calculation formula and multi-stage random sampling. Considering the research objectives, for data collection, empowerment questionnaire of Whetten and Cameron and researcher made questionnaire of occupational characteristics were used. Content and face validity of the instrument was approved on the basis of the opinions of specialists and experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0/92 for empowerment questionnaire and 0/73 for occupational characteristics questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using the methods of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that: 1- On the basis of factor analysis, the occupational characteristics mentioned in the Hackman and Oldham model can be reduced to two factors. 2- Respondents evaluated the occupational characteristics of teaching occupation, which was presented in the mentioned model, in a relatively high level. 3- There are significant differences between the opinions of headmasters and teachers about the characteristics of teaching occupation. 4- The examined teachers evaluated their psychological empowerment at a high level and, finally, there is a significant positive relationship between characteristics of teaching occupation and psychological empowerment of teachers.