Relationship Between Women Employee Empowerment and Job Satisfaction in Nepalese Commercial Banks

Abstract

Women Employee empowerment is an act of enabling or authorizing an individual to think, behave, take action, and control work and decision-making in autonomous ways. However, in order to make women employee productive, first of all, their training and development, participation in decision making process, access to information as well as reward system and intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction should be understood, relationships among these aspects should be examined and then necessary interventions should be taken. Against this backdrop, this study, first, aims to identify the status of women employee empowerment, intrinsic job satisfaction and extrinsic job satisfaction and then examine the relationships among women employee empowerment, intrinsic job satisfaction and extrinsic job satisfaction in the context of Nepalese Commercial banks. This study uses questionnaire survey method by taking a sample of 250 women employee comprising five banks in Nepalese Commercial banks in Kathmandu valley. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, standard multiple regression analysis and one-way ANOVA have been used to analyze the collected data. Results show that there is a significant positive relationship between women employee empowerment and intrinsic job satisfaction as well as extrinsic job satisfaction. The findings of this study imply that the respondents have provided consistent data on the relationship between women employee empowerment and job satisfaction because it is comparatively important to them and is relevant in the Nepalese Commercial banks. Thus, the status of women employee empowerment, from the perspectives of the women employees is satisfactory in the case of Nepalese Commercial banks. Finally, the study has implications on to empower the women employee and enhancing the capacity and skills of the women employees working in the Nepalese Commercial banks for promoting their knowledge, attitude, and performances. Future researchers may employ multi-informant research design to avoid potential bias, increase the sample size, apply different statistical tools, use additional demographic variables and finally, they may undertake similar studies in the different context.