The correlation between organizational citizenship behavior and job Involvement of staff at educational & private hospital

In recent studies related to organization، the concept of organizational citizenship behavior has attracted the attention of many researchers and managers. Job Involvement is also an important variable that helps to increase the effectiveness of organization. This study aimed to determine correlation between organizational citizenship behavior and job involvement of staff at two educational and private hospitals. This study is a descriptive-correlational study that has taken place among 300 staffs that were selected randomly، in two public and private hospitals in Tehran. The Data gathering instrument was a valid and reliable questionnaire that was consists of three parts: demographic information، «Organizational Citizenship Behavior» questionnaire، in five dimensions: conscience، altruism، virtue-orienting، magnanimity and courtesy and «Job Involvement» questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed by using SPSS/18. Pearson test showed significant correlation (P<0. 000) between citizenship behavior and job involvement of employees of two hospitals. Also in private hospital، there was a significant correlation between all dimensions of citizenship behavior and job involvement، except the item of courtesy. In public hospital، only between job involvement and altruism were not found significant correlations. According to the results and importance of citizenship behavior in increasing Job involvement of hospitals staff، the most critical institution، it is suggested that managers try to improve organizations citizenship behavior by setting appropriate policies and strategies in their organization staff.