The Effect of Good Governance Mixture in Governmental Organizations on Promotion of Employees’ Job Satisfaction (Case Study: Employees and Faculty Members of Lorestan University)

Mahdi Shahin

doi:10.5539/ass.v12n5p108

Abstract

<p>The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of indicators of good governance in public organizations to improve the level of employees’ job satisfaction. The methods were confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling using LISREL software and SPSS18 packages. The population consisted of all faculty members and staff of Lorestan University (N=500), which 217 of them were selected systematically using Kerjisi Morgan table. To collect the data 2 standardized questionnaires consisted of good governance and job satisfaction (residents and Ramadan, 2011) were used and the reliability of the questionnaire was (0.73) by calculating Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. The results of the study showed that the implementation of the indicators of good governance in the organization will lead to an increase in employees’ job satisfaction.</p>

Highlights

One of the most important and new issues of the 1980s which is proposed in the literature, is good governance
The present study examines the impact of good governance indicators on promotion of job satisfaction of Lorestan University employees and faculty members
A confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling was used to assess the relation between variables

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Introduction

One of the most important and new issues of the 1980s which is proposed in the literature, is good governance. People join to the organization with their goals and dreams and coordination and alignment of the organization with the goals of individual sin spire job satisfaction in them and at last leads to innovation, creativity in work, increase in production or service and guarantee the health and the dynamics of organization (Mir Shahidi, 2006) In this regard, Nasym et al (2011) stated that employee satisfaction plays an important role in determining organizational success and it needs to upgrade the level of employee satisfaction because it is vital factor in the success of any business organization. Mubarak and Azarpeivand (2010) in a study entitled “A Look at the Indicators of Good Governance from the Perspective of Islam and its Impact on Economic Growth,” investigated the effect of institutional factor, along with other economic factors on economic growth and they examined the significant and positive correlation between institutional environment and economic growth. Among the six indicators of good governance, political stability, government effectiveness, quality of regulation and the rule of law have a positive and statistically significant effect on the human development index

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