The Relationship between Psychological Capital and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

In classical perspectives of financial, human and social capital was the most important factors to organizations success, but in recent years, attention has been paid to the people positive attributes that cause to make a capital called psychological capital. The purpose of this research is to determine the relationship between psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior. This study is descriptive and correlation type. This studyʹs statistical population consists of all education employees of Bushehr. The data were collected from160 people selected in multi stage randomly method. Questionnaire was used to determine the relationship of psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior. Results showed that there was significant relationship between psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior. Also, there was significant relationship between all dimensions of psychological capital (hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resiliency) and organizational citizenship behavior. Regression analysis showed that there was significant multiple relationship between predictive variables and organizational citizenship behavior. Among predictive variables the best predictors were hope and optimism, respectively. Psychological capital plays a positive role in promoting flexibility and optimism and ultimately will lead to increased organizational citizenship behavior.