Ayat Manochehri; Taher Bahlekeh; Nasser Bai; Zinalabedin Fallah
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Study the effect of feedback-seeking behavior on job creativity with the mediating role of job thriving in employees of sports and youth departments in Golestan province was main purpose of this research. This research is applied and is in the category of correlational research. All employees of sports ...
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Study the effect of feedback-seeking behavior on job creativity with the mediating role of job thriving in employees of sports and youth departments in Golestan province was main purpose of this research. This research is applied and is in the category of correlational research. All employees of sports and youth departments of Golestan province (228 people) were the statistical population of this research, and the whole population was selected as a sample. The research tools included standard questionnaires of Feedback-Seeking Behavior (Moss et al., 2003), Job Thriving (Purath et al., 2012) and Job creativity (Zhou and George, 2001). Face and content validity were used to check the validity of the questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaires was checked by Cronbach's alpha and the values of 0.79, 0.82 and 0.81 were calculated for the variables of feedback-seeking behavior, job thriving and job creativity, respectively.The collected data were analyzed using descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential (structural equation modeling) statistics. The results showed a positive and significant effect of feedback seeking behavior on employees' job thriving (β=0.793, t=22.582). The results also showed that feedback seeking behavior has a positive and significant effect on employees' job creativity (β=0.321, t=4.196). Findings showed a positive and significant effect of job thriving on job creativity of employees of sports and youth departments (β=0.476, t=6.207). Finally, the results showed that the effect of feedback seeking behavior on job creativity of employees of sports and youth departments with a mediating role of job thriving is positive and significant (β=0.403, t=5.963). Based on the results, it can be concluded that employees' feedback seeking behavior can have positive consequences such as job thriving and job creativity for them.
Amir Ghanbarpour Nosrati; Nasser Bai; Ahmadali Asefi; Mohammad Hossein Hosseini
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of participative decision making, which is one of the most important contemporary management issues, especially organizational behavior management, on the feedback seeking behavior of experts from the Ministry of Sports and Youth with the mediating ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of participative decision making, which is one of the most important contemporary management issues, especially organizational behavior management, on the feedback seeking behavior of experts from the Ministry of Sports and Youth with the mediating role of psychological ownership. The research method is descriptive - survey, and applied in terms of purpose. 168 of the mentioned experts were randomly selected as a research sample and a questionnaire of the research was distributed among them. SPSS software version 22 was used for descriptive analysis of data and Structural equations by partial least squares method and PLS 3 software was used to modeling the relationships between variables. the results showed that the effect of participative decision making on feedback seeking behavior and psychological ownership is a positive and significant effect. Psychological ownership also had a positive and significant effect on feedback seeking behavior. According to the amount of statistics obtained from the Sobel test, the mediating role of the psychological variable and the indirect effect of participative decision-making on feedback-seeking behavior was confirmed.
Nasser Bai; Zahra Haji Anzehaie; Akram Esfahani Nia
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The purpose of present research is to study the effects of social responsibility and ethical organization atmosphere on the employees’ job engagement in sport and youth offices of Golestan province. It is descriptive - survey. The statistical population was 220 employees of the sport and youth ...
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The purpose of present research is to study the effects of social responsibility and ethical organization atmosphere on the employees’ job engagement in sport and youth offices of Golestan province. It is descriptive - survey. The statistical population was 220 employees of the sport and youth offices of Golestan province which selected as the sample of the research. For collecting data, Lechuga (2012) social responsibility questionnaire; Arnaud et al (2002) ethical climate questionnaire and Skas (2006) employees’ job engagement questionnaire were used. The reliablity of the questionnaires was determined respectively 0.89, 0.81 and 0.85. To analyze data and identify the effects of research variables, structural equation modeling with the PLS software were applied. The results indicated that commitment to employees has no significant effect on employees’ job engagement. The effect of commitment to society on employees’ job engagement was positive and significant. Also, the positive effect of commitment to customers on employees’ job engagement was confirmed. Finally, the research findings claimed that the ethical organization atmosphere has a positive and significant effect on employees’ job engagement. According to the research results, it can be concluded that developing social responsibility and creating a positive ethical atmosphere in sports and youth offices can increase employees’ job engagement.
Nasser Bay; Reza Soleymani Moghadam; Ebrahim Alidoust Ghahfarokhi
Volume 4, Issue 4 , January 2018, , Pages 55-64
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of job satisfaction and perceived organizational support on provided service quality by Sports and Youth offices of Golestan province employees. Statistical population of the study was all employees of Sports and Youth offices of Golestan province ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of job satisfaction and perceived organizational support on provided service quality by Sports and Youth offices of Golestan province employees. Statistical population of the study was all employees of Sports and Youth offices of Golestan province (220 persons) that 141employees selected as a statistical sample of research. To collecting data, questionnaires of job satisfaction (Bobbin & Boles, 2004), perceived organizational support (Yavas & Babakus, 2009) and provided service quality (Lasser et al., 2002) were used. To analyze the data and identify the effects of research variables, structural equation modeling was used by Smart PLS software.The findings showed that job satisfaction hasn’t significant impact on offered service quality provided by Sports and Youth offices of Golestan province employees, but effect of perceived organizational support on provided service quality by employees was significant. It is recommended to managers of Sports and Youth offices of Golestan province that by improve employees’ job satisfaction and proper organizational support of them improve the quality of services provided by employees.
