Organizational Behavior
Hossein Hamzavi; Behrouz Rezaee Manesh; Habib Rudsaz
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Encouraging and strengthening creativity among employees is an important strategy for maintaining and improving competitive advantages, ensuring long-term survival and growth of organizations. On the other hand, it is important to determine which leadership styles are related to employees' creativity ...
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Encouraging and strengthening creativity among employees is an important strategy for maintaining and improving competitive advantages, ensuring long-term survival and growth of organizations. On the other hand, it is important to determine which leadership styles are related to employees' creativity through which methods, procedures and approaches and through which strategies. Organizational citizenship behavior as a psychological behavior may play a critical role as a mediator in our relationship between leadership styles and employee creativity. The current research is an applied research in terms of its purpose, and a descriptive-survey research in terms of collecting data and information. The statistical population of this research is all the employees of the Persian Gulf State University of Bushehr, numbering 302 people, and the sample size based on Cochran's formula is 169 employees. The tool for collecting data and information from the statistical population was a questionnaire. In order to analyze the research data, the Structural Equation Model (SEM) method and SPSS 22 and Lisrel software were used. The results of the research showed that servant leadership and ethical leadership styles have a significant effect on employee creativity with a mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior.
Behrooz rezaeemanesh; Jafar Abbaspour
Volume 24, Issue 78 , December 2015, , Pages 65-88
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A vast number of published studies in the field of humanities and social sciences have suggested that the mastery of all aspects of a problem to a large extent is not impossible. Hence it is important to combine research and use a systematic review and meta-analysis. This paper, using meta-analysis method ...
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A vast number of published studies in the field of humanities and social sciences have suggested that the mastery of all aspects of a problem to a large extent is not impossible. Hence it is important to combine research and use a systematic review and meta-analysis. This paper, using meta-analysis method and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software (CMA2), aggregated the findings of 10 articles. Meta-analysis results indicated that , Quality of work life and organizational commitment relationship has average correlation(mean effect size 0/413). Among the dimensions of quality of work life, quality of work life was strongly correlated with The Social Relevance of Work Life (0/382), the Opportunity for Continued Growth and Security (0/322), Total Life Space (0/318).
Habib Rudsaz; Behrooz Rezaeemanesh; Shaghayegh Tavakoli
Volume 21, Issue 68 , December 2013, , Pages 109-134
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Frontline employees are an important source of differentiation and competitive advantage in the service sector. So in banks as the most important economical and service sector enterprise, employees organizational citizenship behavior is very important. Because Such employees are the most important source ...
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Frontline employees are an important source of differentiation and competitive advantage in the service sector. So in banks as the most important economical and service sector enterprise, employees organizational citizenship behavior is very important. Because Such employees are the most important source of competitive advantage. The purpose of this research studying soft factors that correspond to behavioral area and create competitive advantage in organizations and does organizational citizenship behavior cause competitive advantage, at last a comparative study about the situation of those factors in Tejarat and Mellat banks have done.
This study is a quantitative study that is done in1390- 1391 in a sample of 1100 employees and customers of 76 branches of Tejarat Bank and 73 branches of Mellat Bank. To gather data two questionnaires for employees and customers based on Likert Scale are used and they are analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics methods. To determine the constructs of the conceptual model variables PLS software and structural model are used. Composite reliability and Cronbach Alpha are used to measure questionnaires reliability, so all of the factors coefficients are more than 0.7. Discriminant validity by Average Variance Extracted (AVE) indicator is used to determine convergent validity, so the AVE indicator is more than 0.5. Discriminant validity in the research constructs has good fitness. So the average variance square root is more than the correlation coefficient between each concept and the concepts. Findings show that the model has good comeliness totally and all the parts of the model including measurable parts and structural parts are meaning full. So the individual, managerial and organizational factors create organizational citizenship behavior and these factors create competitive advantage by organizational citizenship behavior. It is also found that the banks should promote organizational factors including organizational support, organizational justice and organizational culture and draw up suitable strategies and long term plans. This kind of studies can be used by managers to increase human resource and organization productivity
Behrouz rezaeemanesh; Rahil adel; Davud bahrami; Firouz zand
Volume 21, Issue 69 , January 2013, , Pages 151-170
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Human resource capitals are considered as one of the most important resources for small enterprises. Considering the nature of these organizations, in the current trade world, social capital is an assuring criterion for organizational success. Due to the low number of employees in small enterprises, ...
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Human resource capitals are considered as one of the most important resources for small enterprises. Considering the nature of these organizations, in the current trade world, social capital is an assuring criterion for organizational success. Due to the low number of employees in small enterprises, the leader has a more dynamic role in organizational processes and can lead the whole organization in to optimized usage of human resource. Moreover, by increasing effective communications, the leader can initiate and increase social capital. The role of transformational leadership style to generate social capital in small enterprises is discussed in this article. The population of this research is knowledge - base organizations in the 6th district of Tehran which are selected randomly. The measurement tool is a questionnaire distributed among 109 employees in 28 enterprises. Descriptive factor analysis is used To examine transformational leadership questionnaire's reliability, and 4 factors including inspiring communication, rational persuasion, supportive leadership- personal recognition and vision are identified. The results of this research which has been done on the individual level show that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between inspiring communication, rational persuasion, supportive leadership - personal recognition with social capital. Spearman relationship test also shows that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between transformational leadership and social capital. Then the discussion and conclusions based on these findings are discussed.
