Factor Structure of Organizational Virtuousness and the Role of Organizational Citizenship Behavior in it

Subject Areas : Educational

Mahdieh sadat Khoshouei ¹ , ابوالقاسم نوری ²

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Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: psychology properties, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, organizational virtuousness,

Abstract :

  The present study was carried out in order to evaluate the psychometrics properties of the Persian version of Organizational Virtuousness Scale and prediction of organizational virtuousness by considering organizational citizenship behavior. 141 persons who were selected from Tele Communication Company of Isfahan employees by simple random sampling, completed the Organizationa l Virtuousness Scale (Cameron, Bright & Caza, 2004) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire (Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman & Fetter, 1990). The results of exploratory factor analysis defined two factors: 1) optimism- trust- compassion and 2) integrity- forgiveness . The reliability coefficients were found to be satisfactory for the total scale (α= 0.93) and its factors (organizational citizenship behavior: α= 0.90 integrity-forgiveness: α=0.87). Also, the Pearson’s correlation coefficients showed that t here is positive significant relation between organizational virtuousness and organizational citizenship behavior (P < 0.01) as well as its three dimensions e.g. civic virtue (P < 0.05), altruism (P < 0.01) and courtesy (P < 0.05). Analysis of regression showed that organizational citizenship behavior dimensions could predict organizational virtuousness and its first factor (optimism- trust- compassion). Thus, Organizational Virtuousness Scale can be used as a reliable and valid tool in organizational researches. Also, the organizational citizenship behavior is useful in the prediction of organizational virtuousness.