Relationship between personality factors and Job Satisfaction among Sepah Bank Employees
Subject Areas : Business ManagementRahim Badri Gargari 1 , Gholamreza Goolmohammad nejhad 2 , Rahman Abbas pour 3
1 - Faculty Member (Assistant Professor) Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Faculty Member (Assistant Professor) Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
3 - Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Keywords: organizational intelligence, Creativeness, Strategic perspective,
Abstract :
Today one of the main challenges of management is how to create new generations of intelligent organizations. The aim of the present research is to investigate the relation between organizational intelligence and creativeness in the central Tehran Branch of Islamic Azad University. According to Albrecht’s view, the organizational intelligence components consist of strategic perspective, common fate, trend to change, spirit, unification, knowledge application and functional pressure. The data collection method has been of correlational type. The statistical sample includes 280 university employees at managerial, expert, and clerical levels selected by random proportional classification. The research tools consist of Albrecht’s organizational intelligence questionnaire and Randseep’s creativeness questionnaire. The results of the research confirmed the positive and meaningful relation between organizational intelligence and its elements with creativeness so much so that any degree of increase or decrease in organizational intelligence and its elements causes increase or decrease in creativeness.
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Abedi, L. A., & Mazrooei, H. (2010). Individual Factors Affecting on the Job Satisfaction of Military Forces. Journal of military medicine, 12, 45-49, (In Persian).
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Digman, J.M. (1990), "Personality Structure: Emergence of the five-factor Model", Annual Review of Psychology, 41, 417–440.
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Foroughi, S. (1996). Investigating the Relationship between Types of Nurses' Types or Their Job Satisfaction in Khorramabad Hospitals. Master Thesis, Tehran: Tarbiat Modares University, (In Persian).
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Grossi Farshi, M. (2001). New Approaches to Personality Evaluation. Tabriz: Publication of Sociology, (In Persian).
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Judge, T.A., Heller, D., & Mount MK (2002), five factor model of personality and job satisfaction: A Meta analysis. Journal of Applied Psychology. Jun: 87(3): 530-41.
Mount, M. K. Barrick, M. R., and Stewart, G. L. (1998), "Basic Behavioral Science Research for Mental Health, a National Investment: Emotion and Motivation", American Psychologist, 50, 838–845.
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Rezaian, A., & Naji, M. J. (2009). Effects of Excitement and Personality on the Job Satisfaction Study in Iranian Oil Industry. Management Perspective, 33, 66-49, (In Persian).
Schmitt, N. & Beldeian, A.G. (1988), A comparison of Leasrel and two-stage least squares analysis of a hypothesized life-job satisfaction relationship. Journal of applied psychology. 67, 806-817.
Spector, P. E., Zapf, D., Chen, P. Y., and Frese, M. (2000), "Don’t Throw Out the Baby with the Bath Water: The Role of Negative Affectivity in Reports of Job Stressors and Strains", Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21, 79–95.
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Zohuri, Q. (1996). Application of Research Method in Social Sciences. Tehran: Mir Publication, (In Persian).