Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Faculty Member and Professor of Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran.

2 PhD Student, Department of System Management, Tarbiat Modarres University

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". 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.

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