DISCUSSION
The findings show that the meaning, competence, and impact dimensions of psychological
empowerment fully mediated the relationship between organizational empowerment
(informal power) and organizational commitment. These findings suggest that teachers'
commitment to the organization is influence by how teachers psychologically perceive their
school environment. Specificall y, the meaning dimension that is how meaningful teachers
view their work to be; the competence dimension that is to what extent teachers perceive
their work as enhancing their skills and competencies; the impact dimension of
psychological empowerment that is to what degree teachers view their jobs as allowing them
to influence strategic, administrative and operating outcomes all mediate the
relationship between organizational empowerment and organizational commitment. This is
congruent with the findings of Liden et al. (2000) who reported that reported that the
meaning dimension mediates the relationship between job characteristics and organizational
commitment.
The findings suggested that the meaning, competence, and impact dimensions of
psychological empowerment fully mediated the relationship between organizational
empowerment (informal power) and organizational commitment. This can be understood in
such a way that informal power that is creating useful and successful relationships and
coalitions with supervisors, peers, and subordinates facilitates access to structures of power in
the organization. I n turn, this leads to teachers' organizational commitment by means of
teachers' perceived ps ychological empowerment. These findings are inconsistent with the
findings of Chang et al. (2010) who found that psychological empowerment did not mediate
the relationship between organizational empowerment and organizational commitment.