A Comparison of Job Involvement and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors among Physical Education Teachers at Seven Educational Districts in Mashhad

Background: The purpose of this research is to study the Comparison of Job Involvement and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors among the male physical education teachers at seven educational districts in Mashhad of Iran. Materials and Methods: In this research the statistical population contain all male sportsteachers from seven educational districts in Mashhad of Iran, that with consideration to size and accessibility of sampling method, 182 people were selected by sample randomly and through cluster sampling with suitable assignation as sample size. In order to gather data hasused three standard questionnaires with high validity and reliability which as: Demographic information, Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Job Involvement. For analyzing the data Correlation Coefficient, ANOVA and Tukey's Test were applied. Results and Discussions: The results indicated that the score of the Job Involvement was M=44.75 and SD=±6.91, this results showed that the Job Involvement was at a medium levelamong the physical education teachers and also score of the Organizational Citizenship Behavior as mean and standard deviation among the physical education teachers was = 92.48and SD =9.76, this results showed that the level of Organizational Citizenship Behavior wasat the medium and high level. There was statistically significant difference in mean rank of Organizational Citizenship Behavior between seven educational districts (P = 0.035), and according to Tukey's test it was determined that the districts two and four have got a higheraverage with comparing of one and seven districts. Conclusions: The outcomes of this research emphasized that outstanding organizational performance cannot be gained through the efforts of ordinary employees, but achievement of lofty goals is in pawn of organizational soldiers who step beyond their duties and abilities in order to fulfill the organizational success.

کلیدواژه ها:

Job Involvement ، Organizational Citizenship Behavior ، Conscientiousness ، Courtesy ، Civil Virtue ، Sportsmanship and Altruism