Investigation the Relation between Organizational Climate and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

ABSTRACT: Organizational climate has the great effect on staff organizational citizenship behaviors, which ultimately can leads to efficiency and effectiveness of organization. The aim of present study was to investigate the relation between organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior of Mazandaran province physical education offices staff. Methodology of this research was descriptive correlative, which was done by field study. Statistical population was the whole staff of Mazandaran province offices of physical education in 2012 (N=188), that 127 one of them were selected randomly method. Instruments for gathering data were; (1) individual characteristics questionnaire, (2) organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire of Bell and Mangog, and (3) organizational climate questionnaire of Sussman and Deep. For analyze data descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and multi-variable regression) was used. Results showed a significant positive relation between organizational climate and its factors with staff organizational citizenship behavior. Also step-by-step multi-variable regression analyze showed that goal and communication factors are good predictors of organizational citizenship behavior of physical education headquarters staff, respectively. According to results it is recommend that sport organizations managers through creating positive organizational atmosphere, goal clarity and more staff interactions, can increase the outbreak of organizational citizenship behavior in staff, and finally improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.