The Relationship between Thinking Style and Philosophical Thinking with Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Staff of Isfahan Province’s Youth and Sport Offices

The purpose of present study was to investigate relationship between thinking style and philosophical thinking with organizational citizenship behavior in staff of Isfahan province’s youth and sport offices. The survey statistical sample was all staff of Isfahan province’s youth and sport offices (N=395) from which 196 were selected based on Kedges and Morgan table by random classification method. To evaluate organizational citizenship behavior variable Padsakov and colleagues questionnaire (1990) including 25 questions in 5 groups was used, to evaluate thinking style variable Sternberg and Wegner questionnaire (1992) including 15 questions in three groups and to evaluate philosophical thinking Standard Philosophical Mind Questionnaire (PMQ) including 60 questions in three groups was used. Results of study showed that there is a meaningful relationship between two dimensions of executive style, judgment style and total scores of thinking style variable and organizational citizenship behavior variable. Though, this relation was not meaningful for legislative style group. There was also a significant relationship between all dimensions of philosophical mind and organizational citizenship behavior variable.