Presenting a Predictive Model of Employees' Behavior based on Leader-Follower Perceptual Interactions in the Situation that Social Support is being Threatened (Applying Conservation of Resources Approach)

The main purpose of this study is to predict the behavior of employees according to perception of possible changes in their organizational resources. This research aims to discover the latent behavioral intentions individuals having in common, within an organizational ecosystem, through an objective approach. Using sequential exploration strategy, the research was implemented through 5 main steps and research model has been verified by means of experimental and empirical methods. The ecosystem studied in this study, was Iranian state and semi-state banks, which were precisely studied by 416 subjects. Also, in order to obtain a model for predicting the organizational behavior of employees, first of all behavioral intentions were typologized by conservation of resources approach, and then modeled with fixed and random effects, in the form of mixed equations. Results showed that predictions of human behavior at the ecological level of resources have great commonalities that can be identified with a resource-based approach. The results also showed that the behavioral intentions of employees in Iranian state and semi-state banks in the situations that social support is being threatened, is to be passive and, in the presence of positive or negative perceptual interaction from leader, this tendency could change from " being passive to "  trying to retain" in both cases. Identifying the boundary points of changing behavioral intentions and the distance of employees 'behavioral intention" from these points was another finding of this study that could be a guide for regulating effective interventions of leaders' in the studied ecosystem.