Abstract

Summary
The purpose of the present research was to study the role of the learning‑oriented organizational climate in the job proactive behavior with the mediating role of job resilience in the physical education experts of the education departments. This is a descriptive work, which is done in a survey method. The population of study consists of all the physical education experts of the Iranian Education Departments. According to the Cochran formula, 288 experts were selected as the sample size via the stratified random sampling method. For data collection, the questionnaires of the learning-oriented organizational climate, job resilience, and job proactive behavior are used. Also, the descriptive and inferential statistics methods are used for data analysis. The results of this work indicate that the learning‑oriented organizational climate has a positive and significant effect on the physical education experts’ job resilience. Also, the effect of the learning‑oriented organizational climate on the physical education experts’ job proactive behavior is positive and significant. Another part of the research results shows that the effect of job resilience on the job proactive behavior is positive and significant. Finally, the results obtained indicate that the effect of the learning‑oriented organizational climate on the job proactive behavior of the physical education experts with the mediating role of job resilience is positive and significant.
Introduction
In the situations where the organizations face many challenges, reinforcing positive job behaviors such as proactive job behavior can increase the effectiveness of the human resources. Proactive job behavior is a behavior in which the employees, instead of waiting, watching, and receiving orders from the others, take on the task and control the tasks and work processes and initiate changes in the organization. Many organizational and individual factors such as the learning‑oriented organizational climate and job resilience skills can enhance the proactive job behavior of the employees. Having a proactive job behavior is essential for the employees of any organization and for the physical education experts who have a wide range of job tasks; having a proactive job behavior can increase their adaptability to different conditions and improve their performance.
Methodology and Approach
The research method was descriptive and survey, and the statistical population included all the employees of the physical education experts of the Iranian Education Departments; 288 experts were selected as the research sample. For data collection, the questionnaires of learning-oriented organizational climate (Putz et al., 2012), job resilience (Malik & Garg, 2017), and job proactive behavior (Parker et al., 2008) were used. In order to analyze the data and identify the effects of the research variables, the structural equation modeling Smart PLS software was used.
Results and Conclusions
The results of this work indicated that the learning-oriented organizational climate had a positive and significant effect on the physical education experts’ job resilience. Also, the effect of the learning-oriented organizational climate on the physical education experts’ job proactive behavior was positive and significant. Another part of the research results showed that the effect of job resilience on the job proactive behavior was positive and significant. Finally, the results obtained indicated that the effect of learning-oriented organizational climate on the job proactive behavior of the physical education experts with the mediating role of job resilience was positive and significant. Based on the results of the research work, it can be concluded that the learning-oriented organizational climate can have positive job outcomes such as resilience and job proactive behavior in the physical education experts.

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