In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Scientific association of sport management

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Management, Ilam University. Ilam

2 Student of Master of Education Management, Kharazmi University. Tehran

3 Ph.D. Student of Human Resource Management, University of Sistan and Baluchestan. Zahedan

Abstract

The study of the relationship between distributed style style strategy, organizational citizenship behavior at group level, self-efficacy and trust in organization in the form of a hypothesized pattern. The research method was descriptive-correlational. For collecting data, a survey method and four valid and reliable questionnaires were used. The total staff of the sports media of Ilam province (N = 136) comprised a population that was selected by using a Morgan table of 103 people by random sampling in a proportional volume. In order to test the hypothesis of the research, the path analysis was performed using PLS VISUAL software. The relationship between distributed style and organizational citizenship behavior at the level of the group is indirect and through the two variables, the sense of self-efficacy and trust in the organization is explained at 45%. The strategy of distributed leadership style as the most innovative and recent style of leadership style is a good predictor of occurrence of citizenship behaviors at group level, which is the primary outcome of distributed leadership style strategy, change in employee trust and self-efficacy. These two variables As mediators, the relationship between distributed leadership strategy and citizenship behaviors affects the level of the group.

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