Determining the Relations between Factors of Team Work, Policy Commitment and Citizenship Behavior

This paper deals with introducing and analyzing a new dimension of the commitment named as policy commitment (commitment to the organizational policies) and recommends three significant and influencing factors on the policy commitment which are more outstanding: The attitude of person to the self-directed teams, the role clarity and the person's role conflict in team. Then by use of such factors, a conceptual structure is developed and the effect of each factor on the policy commitment is studied; and finally, the results of this commitment on two dimensions of the organizational citizenship behavior which is conscientiousness and civic virtue are shown. The present research was conducted in the Iranian Organization for Standard and Industrial Research and regarding that with no interference in the variables only their descriptions are provided. For data analysis the structural equations model (SEM) by LISREL software are used. The results indicate: the person's attitude towards the self-directed teams and the person's role clarity in team are positively influencing on the policy commitment. Also, the policy commitment is positively influencing on the conscientiousness and the civic virtue; but there was no meaningful relationship between the person's role conflict and the commitment to the policies.