The Effect of Employees' Political skill on Organizational Citizenship Behavior(Case Study: General Directorate of Sports and Youth in Guilan province)

The main abjective of this study is evaluating the effect of political skill on organizational citizenship behavior in General Directorate of Sports and Youth in Guilan provinc.

The research method is descriptive-analytical of the applied type. The statistical population of the study is the managers of the General Directorate of Sports and Youth in Guilan province, the heads, deputies and employees of the provincial governorates of Guilan province with 297 people. The sampling method was random and by using Cochran's formula, the sample size was 184.

The results of the test of research hypotheses and analyzes using regression analysis indicated that the political skill and its dimensions (networking ability, interpersonal influence, social consciousness, obvious intimacy) affect the employees organizational citizenship behavior. The level of the corresponding beta coefficient of political skill and its dimensions to the organizational citizenship behavior of the employees were: +/- 769, +/- 725, +/- 501, +/- 567, +, +/- 686.

It can be said that one of the effective variables for the appearance of organizational citizenship behaviors is the level of employee's political skill.