Empowerment and Motivational Persistence in Organizations (Italy- Romania) / Empowerment şi persistenţă motivaţională. Studiu intercultural România – Italia

The research aimed to investigate and emphasize the differences and similarities between Romanian and Italian public employees as far as structural, psychological empowerment and motivational persistence are concerned. The main objectives of the research were to determine the nature of the relationship between psychological empowerment and structural empowerment, to introduce the concept of motivational persistence inside a theoretical model of empowerment belonging to Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1979) and to establish the relationship between the two types of empowerment and the motivational persistence on one hand and the socio-demographic variables of the subjects (field of work and nationality) on the other hand. In addition, we tried to build a prediction model for clarifying the weight of the three variables. The research was conducted on a sample of 116 Romanian and Italian employees of the public administration and the public health care system. As far as motivational persistence is concerned, the results show that Romanian obtains better results as far in the field of motivational persistence, that they tend to consider themselves more ambitious and more capable of overcoming difficulties and professional challenges, a bigger need to compete with the others and to compare themselves with the top of their group. As far as the relation between the psychological, structural empowerment and the motivational persistence is concerned, the results indicate the existence of a strong prediction model between the variables.