Sport Management Journal

Investigating the Relationship of Organizational Identity and Organizational Citizenship Behavior with Mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence in Employees of Sport and Youth General Office

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Bahador Azizi 1
Hasan Fahim Davin 2
Zahra Sadat Mirzazadeh 3

1 PhD Student of Sport Management, Ferdowsi University Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

2 . Assistant Professor, Department of Sport Management, Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Sport Management, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsm.2018.65890
Abstract
The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship of organizational identity (OI) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) with mediating role of emotional intelligence (EI) in employees of Sport and Youth general office of Khorasan Razavi province. This study was application in terms of aims, correlation conducted as a field. The statistical population consisted of all employees. Due to the limit to the number of employees, all of them were considered as the sample by census sampling method (N=n). 3 standard questionnaires were used for data collection. Results showed a positive and significant relationship between OI and its components and OCB (r=0.52, P≤0.001), between OI and its components and EI (r=0.207, P≤0.041) and between EI and its components and OCB (r=0.487, P≤0.001), but EI cannot play a mediating role in the relationship between OI and OCB (0.21≥0.127=0.44*0.29). So it can be stated that there is a naturally significant relationship between OI and OCB, and there is no need for the mediating role of EI to establish this relationship.

Keywords

Citizenship behavior
Emotional intelligence
Employees
organizational identity
Sport and Youth
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Sport Management Journal
Volume 9, Issue 4
Spring 2018
Pages 715-726

  • Receive Date 11 April 2016
  • Revise Date 15 August 2016
  • Accept Date 22 October 2016

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