The effect of participatory decision making on feedback seeking behavior with the mediating role of psychological ownership(Case study: experts of Ministry of Sports and Youth)

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of participative decision making, which is one of the most important contemporary management issues, especially organizational behavior management, on the feedback seeking behavior of experts from the Ministry of Sports and Youth with the mediating role of psychological ownership. The research method is descriptive - survey, and applied in terms of purpose. 168 of the mentioned experts were randomly selected as a research sample and a questionnaire of the research was distributed among them. SPSS software version 22 was used for descriptive analysis of data and Structural equations by partial least squares method and PLS 3 software was used to modeling the relationships between variables. the results showed that the effect of participative decision making on feedback seeking behavior and psychological ownership is a positive and significant effect. Psychological ownership also had a positive and significant effect on feedback seeking behavior. According to the amount of statistics obtained from the Sobel test, the mediating role of the psychological variable and the indirect effect of participative decision-making on feedback-seeking behavior was confirmed.