This research was performed to consider the effects of work motivation on organizational citizenship behaviors of Youth and Sport Office employees in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. All Youth and Sport Office employees in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province (N=152) completed the The Motivation Sources Inventory (Barbut, 2004) and direct managers of these employees evaluated the organizational citizenship behaviors of them by using the Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Scale (Podsakof et al, 1990). A total 152 questionnaires were distributed, 140 of them (92.5 %) were considered as sample. A positive and significant relationship was found between dimensions of work motivation and organizational citizenship behaviors (r=0.29 and p<0.01). Also the results of multiple regression indicated that two dimensions of Self-Concept Internal Motivation and Instrumental Motivation are eligible in order to anticipating organizational citizenship behaviors. Modeling structural equations indicates that 24 % of changes in organizational citizenship behaviors can be defined by work motivation. These results indicated that each dimension of work motivation partially defines organizational citizenship behaviors and it is required that managers upgrade their organization by identification and amplification of work motivation dimensions specially, Self-Concept Internal Motivation and Instrumental Motivation for incidence of organizational citizenship behaviors and finally the effectiveness of their organizations.
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