Effects of Leader's Cooperative Behaviors on Understanding of Workers' Efficacy and Performance

The current research aims at studying the effects of leader’s cooperative behaviors on the understanding of workers’ efficacy and performance. Research variables include the leader’s cooperative behaviors considered as cooperative management, workers’ performance and understanding of efficacy which has three dimensions involving leader, collective and self-efficacies.The research is methodically a descriptive correlation survey and purposely an applied type. Statistical population includes 105 workers of Municipality Organization in Koohdasht. According to Morgan table, 83 individuals were selected out of 105 workers to determine the sample size. To examine the hypotheses, required data were collected by the means of questionnaires with 36 questions subjectively separated into cooperative behaviors, workers’ performance and leader, collective and self-efficacies using five-option Likert scale. Tools’ reliability coefficient was computed as 0.91 on the basis of Cronbach’s Alpha method. Content validity and the views of scholars and professors have been applied to confirm the questionnaires. To analyze data, statistical regression tests, analysis of variance, determination and correlation coefficients and Durbin-Watson test were utilized. Based on the results, three relationships of workers’ performance with leader’s cooperative behaviors and the understandings of leader, collective and self-efficacies are meaningful. According to the research results, some recommendations have been suggested to the managers and scholars for further investigations.