The effect of organizational and extra-organizational factors on the empowerment of employees with the role of organizational learning moderator (Case of Study: Nezaja Artillery and Missile Training Center)

Objective: One of the most important tasks of human resources management in the army is to cultivate efficient and capable forces that can provide the defense needs of the country in the field of human resources according to the existing threats. In this sense, the quality of the trained forces in this organization, which indicates the proportionality of these resources with threats, is an important factor in determining the effectiveness of the organization. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of organizational and extra-organizational factors on employee empowerment, and the organizational learning variable played a moderating role in the causal relationship between organizational factors and empowerment.Method: The target population of this research includes all the employees of the Artillery and Missile Training Center of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army, 178 of whom were selected and studied through three questionnaire tools: organizational factors, organizational learning, and empowerment. For data analysis, descriptive correlation strategy and structural equation model were used with the help of SPSS and Smart PLs3 statistical software.Findings: Based on the findings, the variable of organizational learning strengthens the causal relationship between the variable of organizational factors and empowerment, which shows the importance of this variable in adjusting the relationship between organizational and external factors and empowering employees.Conclusion: The result of the research indicates the confirmation of the effect of organizational factors on empowerment and the rejection of the effect of non-organizational factors on the empowerment of the studied employees. Meanwhile, the moderator of organizational learning has strengthened the causal relationship between the two variables of organizational factors and empowerment, which shows the importance of this moderator in the process of improving employee empowerment. Has i