Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student of Sport Management, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Sports Management, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran

3 Professor of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the structural relationships between organizational indifference, organizational virtue, organizational justice and quality of work life of employees of the General Departments of Sports and Youth in the northwestern provinces of Iran. The statistical population included 204 official employees working in the general departments of sports and youth of the northwest provinces of Iran (East Azerbaijan, 86 people; West Azerbaijan, 57 people; and Ardabil, 61 people). There were 204 employees (134 males and 65 females) and based on the total sampling method, all individuals were selected as the statistical sample. Danaifard (2010) Organizational Indifference Questionnaire, Cameron et al.'s (2004) Organizational Virtue, Walton (1973) Quality of Work Life Questionnaire, and Niehoff & Morman (1993) Organizational Justice Questionnaire were used to collect data. Data were analyzed in the form of structural equation modeling using Spss22 and Amos24 software. The results showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between the variables of organizational virtue, quality of work life, organizational justice and the variable of organizational indifference (P

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[3] Bakhit M. Predicting the organizational indifference of the employees of sports and youth departments of Kermanshah province through the strategic intelligence of managers of new approaches in sports management, 2015: 3(9): 71-81. [Persian]
[4] Bastas A, Liyanage K. Sustainable supply chain quality management: A systematic review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018: 2 :181, P.726-744.
[5] Cameron ks, winn B.(2012) virtuous senss in organizations . In cameronk s , spreitzer G m(Eds) . Oxford handbook of positive organizational scholar ship New york: oxford university press: 2012: 15-16
[6] Dawson D. Organisational Virtue, Moral Attentiveness, and the Perceived Role of Ethics and Social Responsibility in Business: The Case of UK HR Practitioners. Journal of Business Ethics, 2018; 148(4): 765-781.
[7] Fathi H, Yousefi B, and Bahrami, Sh. The Effect of Rumors, Support and Organizational Discrimination on the Indifference of the Employees of the Physical Education Departments of the Ministry of Education, Journal of Human Resource Management in Sports, 2019; 7 (1), 119-136. [Persian]
[8] Ghanbari, S and Heidari Sourshajani N, 1398, Concept logy and study of the antecedents and consequences of organizational indifference, Fourth National Conference on Management, Accounting and Economics with emphasis on regional and global marketing, Tehran. 2019 [Persian]
[9] Goodarzi M. Organizational Behavior Management in Sports. Published by: University of Tehran, third edition.2016 [Persian]
[10] Guichard J. L. An application of ancient Chinese philosophical beliefs of leadership as defined within Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Creating instrument to measure to the strategic intelligence of a leader. Master Thesis, Regent University, Virginia, United States, 2011: 1-157.
[11] Hessel I. Developing A Virtuos Aspect of Leadership: A Case Study of the Virtuous Projects Approach to LeadershipDevelopment, Master Thesis in Education, Department of Educational Research, University of Oslo. 2013
[12] Hosseinzadeh A. Organizational Justice, Tadbir. 2007; 190: 23-18. [Persian]
[13] Jehan N, Gull S, Khan NA, Hussain A. Relationship between organisational virtue and perceived role of ethics and perception of social responsibility in business: testing a mediation model. International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics. 2020;14(2):166-80.
[14] Karakas F. Spirituality and Performance in Organizations: A Literature Review. Journal of Business Ethics,2010; 94(1), 89–106.
[15] Kazemi S, Yousefi B, Sadeghiborojerdi S. The effect of quality of life components on Career plateau and organizational indifference of the staff of the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Scientific Journal of Organizational Behavior Management in Sport Studies, 2019; 5(4): 79-92. [Persian]
[16] Khan AN, Khan NA, Soomro MA. The Impact of Moral Leadership on Construction Employees' Psychological Behaviors. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 2020.
[17] Khayami F, Rahimi H. Organizational Indifference in Kashan Teachers: Backgrounds and Posts. Journal of School Management, 7(2), 2019; pp: 170-180. [Persian]
[18] Lin Z, Shin H. Structural relationship between organizational justice, organizational trust, and knowledge sharing and innovative behavior: Focus on professors from Chinese sport universities. Journal of Physical Education and Sport. 2021;21(2):882-93.
[19] MacIntyre A. After Virtue. 3rd Edition, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame.2007
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[23] Pepper AW. Loss of trust: The negative effects of leader discrimination and the mitigating effects of organizational response. Master Thesis, Missouri University of Science and Technology. 2018.
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[26] Rego  A, Ribeiro N, Cunha MP, Jesuino, JC. How Happiness Mediates the Organizational Virtuousness and Affective Commitment Relationship”, Journal of Business Research, 2011, 64(5):524- 532.
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[33] Siri Plesht M, Maleki M, Hosseinzadeh M, Bakhshizadeh A. Explaining the role of spirituality in the workplace and transformational leadership on employee empowerment by examining the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior." Human Resource Management in Sports, 2016;1: 71-85. [Persian]
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[35] Yah j, Choi s. Sources of social support, job satisfaction, and quality of life among childcare teachers. The Social Science Journal, 2017; 54(4): 450-457.
[36] Zarei S. Determining the role of workplace spirituality and family performance in predicting the quality of work life of employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth. Human resource management in sports, 2018; 5 (2), 291- 308. [Persian]
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