The Relationship between Innovative Organizational Climates, Job Engagement with OrganizationalCitizenship Behavior in Women Employees

Subject Areas : Psychology

Sahar Safarzadeh ¹ , Farah Naderi ^{2 *} , پرویز Asgari ³ , Mirsalahaldin Enayaty ⁴ , Alireza Heydari ⁵

1 - Department of Psychology, Khouzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
3 - Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
4 - Department of Psychology, Khouzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
5 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.

Received: 2012-09-08 Accepted : 2012-12-03 Published : 2012-12-21

Keywords: Innovative organizational climate, Job engagement, organizational citizenship behavior, women employees.,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between innovative organizational climates, job engagement and organizational citizenship behavior in women employees in Ahwaz city. The sample of the research included 159 subjects who were selected randomly via simple sampling procedure based on Morgan table. For the measurement of the variable, Cigel and Kaumer’s Innovative Organizational Climate Questionnaire, Selando and Schoufeli’s Job Engagement Questionnaire and Lee and Allen’s Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire were used. The research was correlation study, and the data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multi-variables regression. The results at the p≤0.0001 level showed that there were a significant relationship between innovative organizational climate and job engagement with organizational citizenship behavior. The regression analysis results also indicated that innovative organizational climate and job engagement were more proper predictive variables in concern with organizational citizenship behavior.