The relationship between job satisfaction, job burnout and organizational commitment with the organizational citizenship behavior among members of faculty in the Islamic Azad University –first district branches, in order to provide the appropriate model

AbstractThe population of this study is consisted of all members of the faculty of the first district branches of Islamic Azad University, the number of whom is 3100 as of the academic year 2008-2009, among this number 341 were selected as a sample by the stratified sampling method. For collecting data, five questionnaires of organizational citizenship behavior (podsakoff,1990) job satisfaction (blazer,2000) job burnout (Maslach and Jackson,1996) and organizational commitment (Allen and Mayer,1991) were applied; and for analyzing the obtained data, the statistical methods of Pearson's correlation coefficient, multivariate regression and path analysis were used and the following results were found. The variables of job satisfaction and organizational commitment had a positive effect on the organizational citizenship behavior while job burnout had a negative effect on it. Job satisfaction has a negative effect on job burnou