ABSTRACT The purpose of the present research was to study the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and job burnout in the faculty members of physical education. The research was correlational. The population consisted of all the faculty members of the Islamic Azad Universities of Region 10 of Iran in 2011. The sample was selected suing purposive and convenience sampling.The instruments for data collection included demographics questionnaire, Podsakoff Organizational Citizenship Behavior Questionnaire, and Maslach Job Burnout Inventory. The data were analyzed using Spearman\\\'s rank correlation coefficient (p = 0.05). The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between altruism and job burnout (r = 0.305; P = 0.042) and between sportsmanship and reduced personal accomplishment (r = 0.491; P = 0.042). However, a significant negative relationship was observed between conscientiousness and emotional exhaustion (r = -0.295; P = 0.049), between courtesy and emotional exhaustion (r = -0.516; P = 0.000), between sportsmanship and depersonalization (r = -0.699; P = 0.000), and between sportsmanship and job burnout (r = - 0.557; P = 0.000).

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