Investigation of relationship between psychological ownership and employee job performance (case study: employees of maintenance workshop of flight training of an airport)

Psychological ownership means attachment between the individual and the aim is to understand the impact of their behavior. The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological ownership on job performance. The aim of the present study is an applied perspective, the nature and methods, descriptive and correlational research focuses also on the time dimension, and the cross-sectional view of the types of data, quantitative research is considered. Statistical population consists of 460 employees of flight training airport that in accordance Morgan table 210 were selected by simple random sampling. In this research for measuring Psychological ownership Van dyne and Pearce (2004) questionnaire and for Job performance Paterson (1970) questionnaire have been used. The results showed that psychological ownership has a positive and significant relationship with job performance and dimensions of psychological ownership is the ability to predict job performance. Therefore, to create a sense of attachment to the staff for aligning individual goals with organizational goals and institutionalize the sense of ownership and belonging, self-consciousness, thoughts, ideas, opinions and beliefs of employees to organizational goals can be used to enhance the performance.