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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The Relationship between Empowerment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of the Pedagogical Organization Employees Ghodratollah Bagheri'", Hassan Zarei Matin'; Faezelt Amighi ' 1.
MA student of Tehran University, Qom College, Tran (Received: 29 February 2011; Revised: 16 August 2011; Accepted: 21 August 2011) Abstract Employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior have very important roles in the process of accomplishment and continuous development of organizational performance.
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 Keywords: .
Is there any relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and empowerment in Qom pedagogical organization employees?
2. Is there any relationship between empowerment components and organizational citizenship behavior in Qom pedagogical organization employees?
Empowerment increases self-efficiency feeling among the members of organization and results in organizational citizenship behavior (ibid, p.
His research showed that there is a relationship between leadership empowerment behaviors and employees' involvement in organizational citizenship behavior; that is leadership empowerment behavior influences organizational citizenship behavior and team performance, contribution in decision-making partially influences generosity, trust increase and independence influences supportive behaviors, generosity and civil prestige (Ahearn, 2000, p.
The impact of organizational citizenship behavior and customer's loyalty factors on service organization employees is remarkably more important.
All the researches mentioned in this study indicated a positive relationship between empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior.
Finally, Sandhu and Bhatnagar (2005) stated that those managers who feel mental empowerment show organizational citizenship behavior.