Abstract
Article history: Received January 20, 2014 Accepted 5 July 2014 Available online July 14 2014 This paper studies the relationship between workplace Spirituality and Organization Citizenship behavior (OCB) in banks located in province of Sari, Iran. The statistical population of research includes the employees of Sari's Banks including Melli, Ghavamin, Saderat, Keshavarzi, Mellat,Tejarat, Saman, Parsian, Sarmaye, Pasargad and Karafarin. We used a questionnaire with 45 questions as an instrument for collecting research data. The questionnaire was designed based on workplace spirituality (Milliman et al., 2003) [Milliman, J., Czaplewski, A., & Ferguson, J. (2003). Workplace spirituality and employee work attitudes, an exploratory empirical assessment. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 16(4), 426-447.] and organizational citizenship behavior (Podsakoff et al., 1990) [Podsakoff, P., MacKenzie, S., Paine, J., & Bachrach, D. (2000). Organizational citizenship behaviors: A critical review of the theoretical and empirical literature and suggestions for future research. Journal of Management, 26(3), 513–563.]. Findings show that there was a meaningful relationship between workplace Spirituality and Organization Citizenship behavior. The results also indicated that there was a positive relationship between work spirituality and Organization Citizenship behavior in Sari's Bank. © 2014 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
During the past few years, there have been increasing interests on employees’ work-related behaviors, which influence on organizational effectiveness
In order to test the hypotheses of the survey, according to the results of correlation coefficient stated in Table 1, it is clear that there was a significant and positive relationship at the level of certainty 99% between all the factors of workplace spirituality and organizational citizenship behavior
The result of this study showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between Employees’ spirituality in the workplace and organizational citizenship behavior in Banks of Sari County located in north region of Iran
Summary
During the past few years, there have been increasing interests on employees’ work-related behaviors, which influence on organizational effectiveness. The focus was on role-based performance to consider the relationship between employees’ organizational behavior declared in job explanation and organization formal role. The extra-role performance is beyond job descriptions of employees. These behaviors are voluntary and most of the times, there is not a predefined organization bonus for them (Organ, 1988). The concept of organizational citizenship behavior was the subject of many studies and its research and practical importance is increasing. Recent studies consider the concept of workplace Spirituality as a determinant of organizational citizenship behavior. The main question of this study is: Main hypothesis: Is there any meaningful relationship between workplace Spirituality and Organizational Citizenship Behavior?
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