INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR AND ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH OF THE STAFF OF YASUJ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and organizational health of the staff of Yasuj University of Medical Sciences. This is an applied research in terms of purpose and a correlational research in terms of the nature and method. The study population consists of the managers and staff of Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, with a total number of 961 people. The researchers used Morgan table in this research to determine the sample size and selected 274 managers and employees as the sample size. The main measurement tools used in this study were Podsakoff, et al.(1990) Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire and the Organizational Health Questionnaire derived from Sharifi (2010), with Cronbach's Alpha coefficients of 0.74 and 0.79, respectively. A non-random (convenience) Sampling method was used in this research. The researchers also used Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to examine the normality of distribution of the variables and used descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and regression) and SPSS software in order to analyze the data.The results of this study showed that there is a significant relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and organizational health of the staff of Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, and all dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior are associated with organizational health. Moreover, the results of the regression test showed that the civic virtue variable plays the most important role in improving the organizational health of the employees and the next variables playing an effective role in this respect include sportsmanship, conscientiousness, courtesy and altruism respectively.