The effect of organizational effective - economic management1 components on organizational - citizenship behavior in the agriculture organization in fars province, Iran

Abstract

The present study considers the effect of three components of effective economic management on organizational-citizenship behavior in the Agriculture Organization in Fars Province in Iran. Along this study, the intermediary role of organizational commitment is considered. At first, the available surveys and articles on the effective economic management were classified, and then the key components including organizational innovation, self- reliance and spiritualization were extracted. Then it was arranged in the form of a questionnaire by the experts. Afterwards, the questionnaires were distributed among 110 managers and employees at various agencies at Fars Agriculture Organization. After revising some of statements, and deleting those statements which had little operative and narrative load factor, the mentioned questionnaire got validated and was applied. Then 72 managers and employees of Fars Province Agriculture Organization were selected for statistical considerations. The effective economic management questionnaire, organizational commitment questionnaire by Allen and Meyer (1991), and organizational-citizenship behavior questionnaire (Organ, 1998) were distributed among them. The theories were studied by using LISREL software and through analyzing the path. The results indicate a certain effect on effective economic management components on organizational- citizenship behavior in Fars Province Agriculture organization. The study pointed out that organizational commitment plays an intermediary role in the relationship between effective economic management and organizational- citizenship behavior.