The Impact of Leaders Wisdom on Organizational Citizenship Behavior with the Mediating Role of Organizational Culture in Tehran Branches of Islamic

The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of leaders’ wisdom on organizational citizenship behavior with the mediating role of organizational culture among Azad university faculty members of Tehran City. The research method was practical and descriptive type and quantitative. The population consisted of 700 full time faculty members in Tehran Azad University that were selected through cluster random sampling method. To collect the data, three standard questionnaires were used: (a) organizational wisdom by Ardlet (2003), (b) organizational citizenship behavior by Organ and Kanofski (1996), and organizational culture by Dennison (2000). After collecting the data, they were desescribed in terms of the mean and standard deviation through SPSS-21 software and inferential statistics was carried out through structural equation modeling with the help of LISREL-v8.80 software. Technical characteristics of the questionnaires were assessed including reliability, validity, convergent and divergent validity. Path coefficient and significant ones were used to test the hypotheses. The results showed that the degree of appropriateness of the proposed model was ideal with regard to research components. Also the results of the study indicated that leader wisdom had significant impact on organizational citizenship behavior with the mediating role of organizational culture among Azad university faculty members.