Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a newly emerging concept in the literature of organization behavior. Despite an increasing number of studies on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), no unifying work is focused on the measurement of degree of change in OCB in a public sector organization and a private sector organization. We hypothesized that there is a significant difference i...

The Relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Performance, and Quality of Work Life among School Principals   S.J. Khalili Ghal’eSari [1] Y. Modanlou, Ph.D. [2]   This research was undertaken to examine the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior, performance, and quality of work life among school principals in Neka. This study had a descriptive, correlatio...

the purpose of this study is to explain the relationship between variables of organizational climate, organizational commitment, job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior. the study population included 1276 employees of the gas company in khuzestan province. to this aim 296 subjects were selected according to the cochran formula. to collect data, questionnaires of ocb of podsakoff...

The social exchange view of commitment (R. Eisenberger, R. Huntington, S. Hutchison, & D. Sowa, 1986) suggests that employees' perceptions of the organization's commitment to them (perceived organizational support, or POS) creates feelings of obligation to the employer, which enhances employees' work behavior. The authors addressed the question of whether POS or the more traditional commitment ...

one of the high citation researches surrounding model of transformational leadership's impact on organizational citizenship behavior has been conducted by podsakoff, mackenzie, moorman and fetter (1990). using structural equation modeling, current study aims at testing this model and also 4 other models in schools on a sample including 652 teachers and 131 principals. results showed that p...

the effects and outcomes of organizational citizenship behavior in recent years have increasingly received attention by researchers and scholars of organization and management field. one of them can be named as creation and enhancement of social capital. yet, a comprehensive research has not been done about it in public organizations of islamic republic of iran. the researcher tries to offer a...

Downsizing has become a salient issue to organizations in recent years. Research has shown that downsizing can result in unfavorable outcomes in terms of survivor’s attitudes and behaviors toward the organization. This paper proposes that perceived justice mediates the effect of downsizing on organizational citizenship behavior among those involved in organizational downsizing. Specifically, we...

Purpose: In this study, we investigated the effects of procedural justice, transformational leadership, and complexity which are directed at the organization as a whole on OCB. Also investigated was the relationship between OCB and job satisfaction. Design/Methodology/Approach: From a sample of 1,100 employees from 30 companies in the Korea National Industrial Complex, we tested the hypothesize...