Structural Model of the Relationship of Professional Development, Supervisor Support and Empowerment with Job Attitudes and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Iran

This research was carried out with the purpose of studying the structural model of the relationship of professional development, supervisor support and empowerment with job attitudes and organizational citizenship behaviors in Iran. The statistical population consisted of the employees of three industrial complexes in Esfahan, Dorrod and Shiraz, from among whom 899 were selected on the basis of stratified method and simple random sampling. Then, the research instruments, including Golparvar and Refiezadeh’s (2009/2010) organizational citizenship behaviors, job attitudes, professional development, empowerment, and supervisor support questionnaires, were administered to them. The data gathered from the research questionnaires were analyzed using structure equation modeling (SEM). The results revealed that: 1) There is a direct significant relationship between professional development, empowerment and supervisor support with job attitudes (P