relationship between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (subject of study: teachers in kerman)

organizational citizenship behavior (ocb) is based on the thought that contain the variety of the staff behavior like moral duties, voluntary assistance, doing duties without formal monitoring and endure adversity. enhancement of the ocb can be facilitated the movement of the traditional organizations into the new competitive environment and increased organizational effectiveness. the purpose of this research is to survey the effect of organizational commitment on organizational citizenship behavior. the method of investigation is through measurement, and the statistical population of present research is all the teachers of kerman. from among all working teachers in kerman, 396 were selected as statistical sample. also, the results showed citizenship behavior of the teachers to be more than average. the analytical results represented a significant positive relationship existing between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (r= 0.38). moreover, from within various dimensions of organizational commitment, respectively emotional commitment and continuous commitment had the most and the least relationship with organizational citizenship behavior (ocb). regression analysis showed that various dimensions of organizational commitment were capable of explaining 24% of organizational citizenship behavior.