An Investigation of the Impact of Jihadi Management and Organizational Virtue on the Political Behavior of Employees

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1 Master’s degree of HRM, Azad University of Ardakan

2 Corresponding author: assistant professor at Azad University of Ardakan

Abstract

This research is aimed at identifying the impacts of Jihadi management along with its components on the political behavior of organizations’ employees through the role of organizational virtue, perception of organizational policies and organizational citizenship behavior as mediators. The statistical population of this research contains 480 employees of Imam J’afar Sadegh Hospital, from whom 214 people were selected as sample through simple random sampling based on to Cochran formula. A questionnaire of 58 questions was employed to measure the variables of the research. To analyze the model and test the hypotheses, Structural Equation Modeling and Smart Pls3 software were used. The results indicated that there are direct and significant impact (t>1.96) of Jihadi management on organizational virtue as much as 81%, inverse, and significant effect of organizational virtue on the perception of organizational policy by 26%, direct and significant impact of the perception of organizational policy on political behavior by 64%, and the effect of perceptions of organizational policy on organizational citizenship behavior to be significant by 27%.  However, the effect of Jihadi management on organizational citizenship behavior t=0.975), and organizational citizenship behavior on political behavior t=0.023 could not be confirmed. Finally, it can be concluded that carrying out the principles of Jihadi management in the management of medical centers has positively affected promotion of organizational virtues, and can be effective in reducing the destructive political behaviors of employees.

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Scientific Journal of Islamic Management
Volume 26, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
December 2018
Pages 127-153

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  • Receive Date: 15 February 2018
  • Accept Date: 27 November 2018

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