On the relationship between organizational structure and organizationalcitizenship behaviors among the staff of Educational Ministry of Urmia
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 5
Abstract
The aim of this study is to survey the relationship of organizational structure and organizational citizenship behaviors (case study: Staff of West Azarbaijan Ministry of Education). The statistical population is comprised of the whole staff working at Urmia Ministry of Education for the year 2012-2013 in which 241 individuals were chosen using stratified random sampling method. The method of this research is descriptive and correlative. The standard questionnaire of organizational citizenship behavior of Podsakof was used in thisstudy to collect data. The reliability coefficients of this questionnaire are based on Cronbach alpha method. In order to analyze the data, SPSS software is used and the obtained results of questionnaire is applied to survey the inferential and descriptive statistics. Also, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Spearman correlation test and Friedman test were used in this study. The study results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between organizational structure and officially with organizational behaviors among the staff of UrmiaMinistry of Education, there was no significant relationship between complexity and focus with citizenship behaviors.
Authors and Affiliations
Leila Rostami| M.A. of State Management, Mahabad Islamic Azad University, Mahabad, Iran, email: leila_9291@yahoo.com, Morteza Piri| PHD Assistant professor of State Management of Policy-making course at Urmia University, Urmia Economy and Management Faculty, Management Department, Urmia, Iran
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