Investigating Weighted Effects of Job Behaviors on Individual Performance in Different Organizational Cultures of the Public Sector
Subject Areas :
Industrial Management
habib ebrahimpour
1
(
department of management and economics, university of mohaghegh ardabili
)
habib ebrahimpour
2
(
department of management, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil
)
bagher asgharnejad nouri
3
(
Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Economy, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili
)
Received: 2018-06-11
Accepted : 2018-11-19
Published : 2018-12-25
Keywords:
Task Behavior,
Counter Productivity Behavior,
Withdrawal Behavior,
Citizenship Behavior,
Organizational Culture,
Abstract :
Many public organization managers believed that regarding to job behaviors is vital subject. It seems individual performance is affected by individual or his/her peers behaviors. Performance of employees subject is on that many of administrator and student of administration are looking procedures to it’s improvement. The main goal of this research is to reveal the simultaneous influence of job behaviors on individual performance in Iranian public organizations. The research method is based on a descriptive- Survey research and theoretical and sequential sampling method is the basis of the choice of research environments. 20 organizations selected as research environments and recognized the culture of this organizations, then according to cochran sample volume method, 1329 researcher made questionnaires distributed and 1187completed questionnaire was collected. The percentage of collected questionnaire is %88. The validity of questionnaire is confirmed by the authorities and the reliability of organizational culture questionnaire, job behaviors, and individual performance confirmed by Retest and Cronbach’s alpha. The Relative Importance Method used for finding the relative weight of job behaviors. The results showed that in power and in-role cultures, routine task behavior is the highest importance. In achievement culture, routine task and adaptive task behaviors, and finally in support culture, interpersonal and organizational citizenship behaviors are highest importance. Finally, some suggestions are proposed, with regarding to hypotheses test in four different organizational cultures
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