Relationship between Perceptions of Managers’ Transformational Leadership Style and Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behaviors of Physical Education Departments of Islamic Azad Universities (khozestan province)

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships perception of transformational leadership styles of physical education departments heads with employee’s organizational citizenship behaviors. One hundred and five participants, stratified randomly selected, answered transformational leadership style and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) questionnaires. Correlation analyses revealed that perception of transformational leadership style was correlated with organizational citizenship behaviors and three of its facets including (conscientiousness, courtesy, and altruism). No correlations were found between transformational leadership style with sportsmanship and civil virtue. Moreover, facets of transformational leadership (idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual motivation, and individualized consideration) were correlated with some facets of OCB specifically conscientiousness, courtesy and altruism. Regression analyses revealed that among all facets of transformational leadership style, two of them including idealized influence and inspirational motivation more accounted for OCB variance and its facets than other facets. Based on research findings it could be concluded that the managers should strengthen their ideal influence and inspirational motivation for increasing OCB of employees.