Tooraj Hassanzadeh Samarin; Sepideh Sefidkar
Volume 23, Issue 76 , January 2015, , Pages 141-155
Abstract
The aim of this study was evaluating the relationship between Organizational Virtuousness and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Rasht Municipalities’ employees. The research method in terms of purpose applied and in terms of method was descriptive research and correlation type, and required ...
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The aim of this study was evaluating the relationship between Organizational Virtuousness and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Rasht Municipalities’ employees. The research method in terms of purpose applied and in terms of method was descriptive research and correlation type, and required data have been collected using questionnaires and survey method. Rasht Municipalities’ Managers and experts (257 people) were selected as the target population and the sample size was set equal to 154 by using Cochran's formula. The gathered Questionnaires and data were analyzed by SPSS Software through simple linear and multiple regression tests. The results showed that there was a positive significant relationship (correlation coefficient 60.3) between organizational virtue and citizenship behavior of employees of municipality districts of Rasht. Moreover, investigating aspects of organizational virtue with citizenship behavior showed that optimism (17.1), compassion (20.5), honesty (27.9), and generosity (14.4) could explain organizational citizenship behavior of municipality districts of Rasht.
Asghar Moshabaki Esfahani; Zeinab Rezaee
Volume 23, Issue 73 , May 2014, , Pages 1-23
Abstract
In the past, attentions are given to theory making, research and application of positivism in psychology field, but today the positivism researchers have found the way into organizational studies. Application of the positivist psychology in organizational field is titled as "Positive Organizational Psychology". ...
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In the past, attentions are given to theory making, research and application of positivism in psychology field, but today the positivism researchers have found the way into organizational studies. Application of the positivist psychology in organizational field is titled as "Positive Organizational Psychology". In field of positive psychology application, in organization and management areas, two major approaches of "Positivist Organizational Behavior" and "Positivist Organizational scholarship" are discussed. In recent years, the researches in this field have mainly focused on positivist organizational behaviors. In this study, the effect of organizational positive virtuousness which is one of applied fields of positivist organizational researches, on organizational commitment and work engagement has been studied. The present research, in terms of goal is considered as applied and it is survey method. The research population includes the employees of the organizations in charge of reconstruction in Rasht city and the tools applied in this research are the standard questionnaires of organizational virtuousness, work engagement and organizational commitment. In order to analyze the data, the confirmatory factor analytic technique and the structural equation modeling has been used. The data analysis results confirm the presented conceptual model. Also, the research results show the positive and significant effect of organizational positive virtuousness on organizational commitment and work engagement and confirming positive and significant effect of work engagement on organizational commitment in 95 percent confidence level.
