Organizational Pride Consequences; a Behavioral Approach

Abstract

The Current study aims at investigating the effects of organizational pride and analyzing some of the consequences thereof among the employees of Khuzestan Regional Electric Company. In this study, cooperative behavior, commitment to customer service, psychological attachment, hubristic pride, deviant behavior and organizational narcissism, as the variables influenced by organizational pride, were studied. The statistical population of the research were the employees of Khuzestan Regional Electric Company encompassing 715 people among which 280 employees were selected by stratified sampling method according to the number of employees. To test the research hypotheses, content and construct validity of the questionnaire were examined to verify the validity of the questionnaire and Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the questionnaire reliability. The results of testing the hypotheses demonstrated that organizational pride has a significant effect on the following variables: cooperative behavior, 0.81, psychological attachment, 0.94, commitment to customer service, 0.51, organizational narcissism, 0.38 and deviant behavior, 0.29.

Keywords

• cooperative behavior
• deviant behavior
• organizational narcissism
• organizational pride
• psychological attachment