Examination of organizational citizenship behavior of staff working in sports organizations

The aim of this research is to examine the organizational citizenship levels of personnel who working in sport organizations. The universe of the research, which was carried out using the descriptive and relational scanning model and the simple random sampling method, consisted of the employees of sports organizations, and the sample was Adana, Ankara, Balıkesir, Bilecik, Bolu, Çanakkale, Edirne, Isparta, İzmir, Kırıkkale, Muş, Nevşehir, Osmaniye, Tokat, Uşak, and Zonguldak provinces, a total of 911 employees, 513 women and 398 men, work in institutions affiliated to the Ministry of Youth and Sports. Organizational citizenship behavior scale developed by Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman, and Fetter (1990) and adapted into Turkish by Bitmiş, Sökmen and Turgut (2014) was used as a data collection tool within the scope of the research. SPSS 26.0 was used in the analysis of the obtained data. As a result of the examinations made in the statistics program, it was determined that the mean scores of the sub-dimensions in the organizational citizenship scale did not show a normal distribution, and the Mann-Whitney U Test was used for pairwise group comparisons, and the Kruskal-Wallis Test for comparisons of more than two groups. Bonferroni correction was made in order to observe pairwise comparisons in cases where a significant difference was detected from the Kruskal-Wallis test. As a result of this research, in which a total of 911 personnel working in 911 Provincial Directorates of Youth and Sports participated; While it was determined that the organizational citizenship behaviors of the employees of the sports organization increased as the duration of their professional service increased, it was concluded that the organizational citizenship behaviors of the personnel working in these institutions did not change according to the way they work on a contracted or permanent basis.