The mediating role of organizational health in the relationship between structural empowerment and teachers' organizational citizenship behavior
Subject Areas : Education
1 - Ddepartment of Educational Management ,NM.C., Islamic Azad University, Noorabad Mamasani, Iran
Keywords: organizational health, structural empowerment, organizational citizenship behavior.,
Abstract :
Introduction: Empowerment of human resources is known as a key factor in the development and progress of educational organizations in dealing with global changes. Empowering teachers, due to their key importance in the education process, can have a significant effect on improving the activities of the educational system and ultimately lead to the creation of an effective, sustainable and high-quality educational system. The purpose of this article was to investigate the mediating role of organizational health on the relationship between structural empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior of Noorabad Mamsani high school teachers.
Research Methodology:This research was applied, descriptive-survey and cross-sectional. The statistical population is all teachers of Noorabad Mamsani high schools which were 340 persons and according to krejcy-Morgan's table, 181 teacher were selected as sample. The sampling method was random-stratified. Hoy & Tarter's (1997) organizational health questionnaire ,Laschinger et al. (2001) structural empowerment questionnaire , and Podsakoff's(2000)organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire وwith confirmed validity and reliability.were used to collect data. Pearson's correlation coefficient and path analysis and SPSS and Amoss software were used for data analysis.
Findings: The results of the Pearson correlation test showed that at a significance level less than 0.01, structural empowerment has a significant relationship with organizational citizenship behavior and organizational health of Noorabad Mamsani elementary school teachers. Also; Organizational health has a significant relationship with organizational citizenship behavior of Noorabad Mamsani elementary school teachers. Finally; The results of path analysis showed that organizational health has a mediating role on the relationship between structural empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior of Noorabad Mamsani high school teachers.
Conclusion: It seems that by implementing structural empowerment, education management can increase organizational citizenship behaviors in their organization and in this way achieve a more productive work environment. Also, structural empowerment indirectly leads to an increase in organizational citizenship behavior through increasing organizational health.
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