Investigating the Role of Social Network Tie and Organizational Commitment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Agricultural Extension Staff, Isfahan Province

This study aimed to investigate the role of social network ties and organizational commitment on organizational citizenship behavior of agricultural extension staff Isfahan Province. The present research in terms of purpose is applied and in terms of collecting data, it is a survey type. The statistical population of this research is 170 field experts of agricultural extension of Isfahan province, 130 of them were randomly selected using Cochran formula. The research instrument was a questionnaire which its validity was verified by face and discriminant method and its reliability was confirmed by ordinal Teta coefficient. The statistical dominant method was the structural equation modeling partial least squares method. The overall result of the research showed that the organizational citizenship behavior of staff in two dimensions of loyalty and cooperation, regardless of the impressionability of organizational commitment and social network ties, depends more on their organizational commitment and this is while Service dimension of Organizational citizenship behavior were impressed by the social network tie and organizational commitment variable did not show any significant role in this regard. Therefore, it seems that social network tie and organizational commitment of staff as two important assets of the organization play an important role in the formation of extra role behaviors. This implies that the review of interpersonal relationships among staff will play an important role in predicting employee behavior in the organizational environment.