The Effect of Dark Personality Traits on Organizational Citizenship Behavior through Incivility in the Workplace and Islamic Work Ethics

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, Majed Maharani Barzani, ¹ , Mehrdad Sadeghi ² , Ali Rashidpour ³

1 - 1. Ph.D. Student, Cultural management and planning of Facuty Islamic governance. Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor Cultural management and planning and planning of Facuty Islamic governance Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Associate Professor Cultural management and planning of Facuty Islamic governance Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2023-05-02 Accepted : 2023-05-02 Published : 2023-04-21

Keywords: Islamic work ethics, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Incivility in the Workplace, dark character traits,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is to determine the effect of dark personality traits on organizational citizenship behavior through incivility in the workplace and Islamic work ethics. The present study was applied in terms of its purpose and descriptive in terms of correlational data collection. The statistical population of this research was all the employees of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari universities, whose number was 2255 people, according to the size of each university, a sample size of 660 people was selected using Cochran's formula, and the sample people were selected using the stratified sampling method. They were selected according to the size of each floor. The research tool was the standard questionnaire of the dark personality traits of Jones and Paulus (2014), the standard questionnaire of Islamic work ethics of Al-Dalimi  (2020) and the standard questionnaire of organizational citizenship behavior of Lee and Allen (2002) and the standard questionnaire of incivility in the workplace by Cortina et al. (2001) that  the validity of the questionnaires was examined based on the content form and structure validity and after the necessary terms the validity was confirmed and on the other hand the reliability of the questionnaires was 0.90 and 0.88 respectively with Cronbach's alpha method. 0.90 and 0.88 were estimated and data analysis was done with the help of structural equations in Warp software. The results of the research showed that dark personality traits have a negative and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior through Islamic work ethics, and the coefficient of this effect was -0.22, and through incivility in the workplace, it has a negative and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. The coefficient of this effect was -0.80 and the direct effect on organizational citizenship behavior was also significant and negative. The coefficient of this effect was -0.70.