The mediating role of Organizational identification in the relationship between social responsibility and Work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior

Subject Areas : Psychology

Marzieh  Heydari ¹ (Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Abadeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadeh, Iran)

Received: 2022-04-22 Accepted : 2022-11-30 Published : 2023-04-21

Keywords: work engagement, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, organizational identification, Social Responsibility,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of organizational identification in the relationship between social responsibility and Work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. In terms of applied purpose, research method is descriptive and correlational and the statistical population of this study is made up of 400 teachers in the schools of Bowanat city in the academic year 1400-1999 in Fars province. To select the sample size using the Cochran's formula, a sample of 196 people was selected by stratified random proportion or volume. The Shuffle et al. (2006) Questionnaire on Organizational identification (Boyle et al., 2019), Social Responsibility (Carroll, 1991), and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (Oregon and Kanowski, 1996) were used to measure Work engagement. Using the technique of equation modeling, the use of research hypotheses on the analysis and exposure analysis. The research hypotheses were analyzed using structural equation modeling technique. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between social responsibility and Organizational identification, Organizational identification with Work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. It was also found that Organizational identificationplays a mediating role between social responsibility and Work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior.