The Mediating Role of Power Distance in the Effect of Organizational Culture Teams on the Personnel Empowerment

Personnel empowerment, which is influenced by organizational culture, is an important factor for motivation. As a participatory management, personnel empowerment is defined as authorization and empowerment of lower-level employees to make decisions. Hofstede's power distance from cultural dimensions; is explained by emphasizing the power relationship between people. For empowerment practice, it is desired that the level of power in organizations is at a low level. If there is a high level of power in an organization and employees have this culture, then empowerment practices remain very limited. In this context, this study, conducted in textile enterprises, examines whether the power distance has an intermediary role in the influence of organizational culture types on employee empowerment. For this purpose, the required data were collected by surveying employees from textile enterprises operating in Tunceli province. Correlation and a Structural Equation modelling were applied to all 314 of the data obtained. According to the results of this analysis, the findings supporting the basic hypothesis obtained are that culture of adhocracy and personnel empowerment are mediated by the national cultural power distance dimension.