Interactive Role of Conscientiousness and Psychological Climate on Job Performance and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

The present research aimed to study the interactive role of conscientiousness of psychological climate on the employees’ job performance and organizational citizenship behavior of districts one and two of education offices of Urmia city. The population was 448 employees of the above-mentioned education offices. Also, the sample size was 211 employees which were selected by stratified random sampling based on Morgan formula. Data were collected by the use of four questionnaires as follows: Duchon and Ashmus’s (2000) Measure of Spirituality, Spritzer’s (1995) Psychological Empowerment Scale, Schutte et al’s (1998) Emotional Intelligence Scale and Chan and Drasgow’s (2001) motivation to lead scale, respectively. The reliability coefficients of questionnaires obtained through Cronbach’s alpha were 75%, 86%, 85% and 81%, respectively. Moreover, for checking the normality of data Kolmogorov-Smirnov, a nonparametric test, was used. For statistical analysis, Pierson correlation and multiple regressions were used. The results of correlation indicate that there are significant positive relationship between spirituality, psychological empowerment and emotional intelligence and motivation to lead. Furthermore, the results of multiple regressions indicate that psychological empowerment and emotional intelligence have higher power of prediction. On the contrary, spirituality has lower power of prediction. Also, the findings of this research examined that there are not significant relationship among gender and professional positions with motivation to lead.