psychological empowerment: a strategy for promotion of participatory decision-making, and organizational citizenship behavior (case study: urmia medical university)     hassani m [1] *, majidi j [2]     received: 21 aug, 2012 accepted: 21 nov, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the present study surveys the relationships between participatory decision- making, organizational citizenship be...

the purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between variables of organizational climate, organizational commitment, job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior. the study population included 1276 employees of the gas company in khuzestan province. to this aim 296 subjects were selected according to the cochran formula. to collect data, questionnaires of ocb of podsakoff...

Spirituality by creating an atmosphere of trust in the workplace increases the commitment. This commitment includes an employee’s commitment to the organization and the organization's commitment to its employees and customers. In organizations with high levels of spirituality, employees have more positive attitudes and organizational commitment compared to organizations lacking the same values....

The current article presents the results of a study which developed an Italian adaptation of Podsakoff, Mackenzie, Moorman, and Fetter’s (1990) questionnaire, measuring organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) by referring to the following dimensions: Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy, and Civic Virtue. The original questionnaire was translated into Italian and modified in o...

nowadays, the concept of organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) has attracted managers and researcher’s notice in scientific groups. emphasizing on these behaviors can be one of the ways that causes effectiveness in organization, that hasn’t been much emphasized on to date. this research aimed to survey the relationship between ocb and its dimensions and staff organizational commitment in te...

although the research on organizational citizenship behaviors (ocbs) has increased dramatically in diverse fields during the past decade, little is known about the ocbs in the information systems area. the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of ocbs on information systems success. in order to perform empirical analyses, measurements on the ocbs constructs based on the five dimension...

this study aimed at examining the effect of employees’ work motivation on organizational citizenship behaviors in sport and youth offices of chaharmahal-va-bakhtiari province. all employees (n=152) in these offices completed motivation sources inventory (barbuto et al., 2004), and their leaders evaluated their organizational citizenship behaviors by organizational citizenship behavior scale (po...

Job satisfaction, as an integral part of organizational environment, can affect organizational citizenship behavior. Therefore, the present paper aimed at determination of the relationship between these two factors among the employees to provide an appropriate model. The population of this study consisted of all employees of Golestan Province industry, mine and trade organization (Iran), the nu...

Background: Government agencies need to improve the ethical behavior of managers and employees in order for their mission to be effective. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of managerschr('39') moral behavior in the level of social invalidity of employees, considering the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior in government organizations. Method: The research met...