TY  - JOUR
T1  - Examining the Relationship of Social Support with Organizational Improvement and Organizational Effectiveness among Elementary School Teachers
AU - Pourghaz, Abdulwahab AU - Jenaabadi, Hossein AU - Rahmandoost, Aliasghar 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 15
SP  - 3659
EP  - 3663
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.3659.3663
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.3659.3663
KW  - Social support
KW  -organizational improvement
KW  -organizational effectiveness
KW  -independent
KW  -design
AB  - This study aimed to examine the relationship of social support with organizational improvement and organizational effectiveness. Given the objective of the current study, this was a descriptive study following a correlational design. The statistical population included all elementary school teachers in district 1 of Zahedan. The sample size was 297 individuals (242 female and 55 male teachers) whom were selected using the stratified random sampling method. The data collection tools were the Social Support Questionnaire, the Organizational Improvement Scale and the Organizational Effectiveness Inventory (Parsons’s AGIL paradigm). To analyze the obtained data, the one-sample t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, linear regression analysis, F-test and independent t-test were applied. The results of this study indicated that the statuses of social support, organizational improvement and organizational effectiveness among the teachers were desirable. Moreover, social support and organizational improvement were significantly and positively related and social support was significantly and positively correlated with subscales of organizational effectiveness. In addition, social support was able to predict 1.6% of the variance in organizational improvement and 2.9% of the variance in organizational effectiveness.
ER  -