Abbas Vali Nia Namavar1, Kourosh Ghasemzadeh2*
With regard to the importance of transformational leaders in today’s organizations, investigation of organizational citizenship behavior as an important factor for the organization effectiveness, and also creating the conditions for organizational job satisfaction, the objective of this study was to investigate transformational leadership effect on the employees’ organizational citizenship behavior with mediating role of job satisfaction in Qaemshahr Department of Education. The population included all employees in Qaemshahr Department of Education who were 5000 people; of whom, 357 employees were selected as the sample of the study based on Morgan table. The instruments of this study were questionnaires. Using Cronbach’s alpha, the reliability of the questionnaires was calculated as more than 0.7. The experts’ and the supervisor’s comments were used for determining the validity of the instruments. LISREL software and the structural equation model were used for data analysis. The results indicated that the effect of the transformational leadership on citizenship behavior of the employees in Qaemshahr Department of Education is confirmed. Moreover, the moderating role of job satisfaction is effective with regard to the effect of the transformational leadership on citizenship behavior.
