title: Investigation of the relationship between organizational learning and organizational citizen behavior among the staff of teaching hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Today, the concept of organizational learning has attracted the attention of many managers and researchers in scientific and research circles as well as those in the organization-related studies. Taking the organizational learning into account might offer a means of organizational effectiveness that has gone unnoticed. Thus the present study aimed at investigating the relationship between the organizational learning in each of its four aspects as independent variables and organizational citizen behavior of the staff as constituting the dependent variable of the study.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a descriptive-analytical study with a practical approach conducted in 2010. The sample included 167 staff members working in educational health centers affiliated with Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. The data were collected via both the organizational learning questionnaire and organizational citizen behavior questionnaire and analyzed by using SPSS software and Spearman test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results indicated that the mean of organizational learning indicator was 2.9±0.648 and that of organizational citizen behavior 3.78±0.413. In addition, the spearman correlation coefficient ranging from 0.058 to 0.129 between the elements of the organizational learning and the organizational citizen behavior was not statistically significant (p>0.05). The findings also indicated that the correlation between them was average among the staff of Shahid Raja'ee Educational health center (0.319), thus the relationship between the two sets of variables proved significant (p=0.031). However, the same was not true in other centers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was concluded that management commitment, open space, transfer of knowledge, and systemic vision could all enhance the level of organizational learning in hospitals which calls for focus on the elements of organizational citizen behavior.
authors.affiliation: School of Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin. Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Zakaria
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Kiaei
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
authors.forename: Edris
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hasanpoor
authors.affiliation: Research Center for Health Services Management, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
authors.forename: Mobin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sokhanvar
authors.affiliation: Health Management and Economics Research Center, Iran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ; School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mohseni
authors.affiliation: School of Public Health,Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Hajarbibi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ziaiifar
authors.affiliation: Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin. Iran.
authors.forename: Mahin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moradi
keywords: hospital; organizational citizen behavior; organizational learning; staff