Teachers’ Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Is there any Relationship?

• Authors: Soheila Ahmadi , Farid Ahmadi

Abstracts

EN

This study aimed to explore the level of teachers’ organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior and the relationship between them. The data was collected through a questionnaire returned from 322 teachers working in Urmia public high schools. The results of descriptive analysis indicated that the teachers had positive perceptions of organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors. Moreover, they showed a moderate positive relationship between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior, and affective commitment emerged as a significant predictor of organizational citizenship behaviors.

Keywords

EN

organizational commitment; organizational citizenship behaviors; Urmia

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 33
• Pages: 272-283

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Soheila Ahmadi

• Department of Education, Ministry of Education, Iran

author

Farid Ahmadi

• Urmia University of Technology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.13.33.3.23

Biblioteka Nauki

18104554