Volume 14, Issue 1 (8-2019)                   bjcp 2019, 14(1): 22-30 | Back to browse issues page


XML Persian Abstract Print


Assistant Professor, Department of psychology and educational sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Arak University, Arak , T-sepahvand@araku.ac.ir
Abstract:   (4140 Views)
The purpose of the present research was explaining the hope in employees based on the perceived organizational support and workplace spirituality. The research was carried out in the form of correlational design and predictive study. For this purpose, 396 employees of Markazi Province Electeric Distribution Company working in 2015, were selected by stratified random sampling based on their job conditions and were examined as the sample. The required data, were collected by Snyder Hope Scale, Survey of Perceived Organizational Support and Workplace Spirituality Scale, and were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple simultaneous regressions.
The results indicated that there was direct and significant relationship between perceived organizational support and workplace spirituality with hope and its components in employees (r=0/28 to 0/53, p<0/001). However, workplace spirituality had the main contribution in predicting total hope, agency thinking and pathway thinking in employees in level of p<0/001 (Respectively with Beta=0/528, 0/508 and 0/461).Workplace spirituality was the important variable in explaining the hope of employees and it is necessary to pay it special attention by the managers of the organizations.
Full-Text [PDF 912 kb]   (2035 Downloads)    
Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2018/12/24 | Accepted: 2019/05/28 | Published: 2020/02/23

Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.