Seyed Ali Akbar Afjei; Mehdi Yazdanshenas; Fatemeh zargaran khouzani
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Banking industry is one of the most important service provider industries in Iran. Given the crucial role of human resources and employee behavior in Quality Management Services, the aim of this study is to survey the impact of perceived organizational support, psychological empowerment and leader-member ...
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Banking industry is one of the most important service provider industries in Iran. Given the crucial role of human resources and employee behavior in Quality Management Services, the aim of this study is to survey the impact of perceived organizational support, psychological empowerment and leader-member exchange on organizational commitment and its consequences on the quality of service in the banking industry. This is descriptive, correlational and practical study. Statistical population is all of employees of pasarged bank branches in Tehran and its customers. By Clustering method, 322 employees have been selected and by simple random sampling 322 customers were selected. In this paper Eisenberger perceived organizational support questionnaire, Spreitzer psychological empowerment questionnaire, Liden & Maslyn LMX questionnaire, Allen & Meyer organizational commitment questionnaire and Parasuraman SERVQUAL questionnaire have been used for data gathering. For analyzing data Lisrel and SPSS softwares were used. Results showed that POS, PE and LMX affect OC and have relationship with QOS. A suggestion in human resource development strategies in order to compete in the service sector of the banking industry is that manager should pay more attention to the factors affecting organizational commitment, that is not only creating a reward system. Success of a bank in attracting customers and maintaining them depended on the service that employees provide to customers, hence, the role of employees and their organizational behavior is highlight and providing services quality is one of challenges in organizational behavior and human resources field and is related to organizational commitment, Leadership, perceived of organizational support and psychological empowerment of employees.
Milad Bakhti; mohsen Torabi; Aryan Gholipour
Volume 21, Issue 66 , January 2012, , Pages 25-46
Abstract
With an emphasis on the role of social capital as one of the most important intangible assets in modern organizations, the present study aims to add to the literature in this area and help managers to create and maintain this in their organizations. Specifically, the study has aimed to develop and fit ...
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With an emphasis on the role of social capital as one of the most important intangible assets in modern organizations, the present study aims to add to the literature in this area and help managers to create and maintain this in their organizations. Specifically, the study has aimed to develop and fit a model that considers the employees’ perceived organizational support as one of the major sources for creating social capital and highlights the importance of organizational citizenship behavior as a mediator. To this end, 192 employees from Telecommunication Infrastructure Company of Iran (TIC) were randomly selected to participate in the study. The applied research methodology is survey design and specifically the research is based on Structural Equation Modeling. The results indicated favorable fit for the model that considers organizational citizenship behavior as a mediator that explains the impact of perceived organizational support in creating social capital. Based on the results of this model, the employees who conceive of their organization as supportive help improve the social capital through displaying citizenship behavior in the organization.
