The Relationship between Empowerment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of the Pedagogical Organization Employees

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1 Assistant Professor of Tehran University, Qom College, Iran

2 Professor of Tehran University, Qom College, Iran

3 M.A student of Tehran University, Qom College, Iran

Abstract

Employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior have very important roles in the process of accomplishment and continuous development of organizational performance. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between these two variables in employees of Qom province pedagogical organization. Ninety nine statistical samples were selected from the population through classified sampling. The researcher-made questionnaire was used to measure the empowerment and its components and the Moorman and Black’s standardized questionnaire was employed to measure organizational citizenship behavior and its components.
The components of empowerment are expertise, courage in action, work ethics, communicative skills, thinking, and experience gaining. The results of t-test showed that the situation of empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior were relatively desirable. But the results of Spearman’s correlation coefficient and partial correlation coefficient showed that there was no relationship between empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior of employees (p<0.05). ...

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Interdisciplinary Journal of Management Studies (Formerly known as Iranian Journal of Management Studies)
Volume 4, Issue 2 - Serial Number 646520
Iranian Journal of Management Studies
September 2011
Pages 53-62

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