Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Professor of Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Business Administratrion, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad

2 Master of Executive Management, De partmenr, Management Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad

Abstract

Organizations Nowadays due to environmental turbulence, in order to survive and overcome the environmental challenges, have tried to improve their performance. So, they focus their efforts on increasing Optimal performance of employees. Organizational citizenship behavior is one of the factors that affects on improving personal and organizational performance and also can be increased by both factors fun at work and joy. In this study, the role of fun at work and joy in increasing organizational citizenship behavior have been studied. purpose of the study is investigating effect of fun at work on organizational citizenship behavior through mediating role of joy. In this research 187 employees of Mashhad municipal have been surveyed who were selected by simple random sampling method. The nature of the study’s method is survey-applied and the method of that is analytical method. statistical software such as Amos 20 and SPSS18 were used for Statistical analysis. Analysis of data collected show fun at work has positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Moreover, positive effect of mediating role of joy on relation of fun at work and organizational citizenship behavior was verified. In addition, strongest relationship has been found between fun at work and joy.
 

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