This study analyzed ethical and unethical behaviors in the Chinese public sector, and tested hypotheses concerning the main predictors of such behaviors, as well as other contingent factors related to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). We investigated three specific issues. First, we examined whether ethical leadership and ethical environm...

This study examines the role of organizational trust in the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). A total sample of 191 employees was selected from Syrian private banks. The research findings indicate that there is a significant positive impact of organizational justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, and interactional) on OCB. Similar...

Through literature review and induction from management practices, this paper firstly identifies four subtypes of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), namely altruistic OCB based on personality, responsible OCB based on reciprocity, instrumental OCB based on self-interest, and compulsory OCB based on stress. The four OCB subtypes constitute an OCB continuum in the order of an individual’s...

Previous studies explain situational antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) using social exchange theory. However, the effects of factors such as perceptions of job characteristics on OCB seem to require a different explanatory mechanism. This article proposes that these effects can be explained through a new exchange relationship called work exchange. A theory for the situati...

Article history: Received 12 February 2011 Available online 15 March 2011 Utilizing a meta-analytical approach for testing moderating effects, the current study investigated organizational tenure as a moderator in the relation between affective organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). We observed that, across 40 studies (N=11,416 respondents), the effect size for...

The authors draw on theories of social exchange and prosocial behavior to explain how employee perceptions of procedural justice and individual differences in reciprocation wariness, empathic concern, and perspective taking function jointly as determinants of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) role definitions and behavior. As hypothesized, empirical findings from a field study show both...

In the present scenario each and every industrial organization is surrounded by an unbrokenable mount known as competition. To subdue this arduous mount, organizations have to encourage the citizenship behavior among employees which enhance the success and effectiveness of an organization, because employees are often viewed as invaluable assets of organizations. As an evident of this, earlier s...

Organization citizenship behavior (OCB) is a term that encompasses voluntary positive behavior of employees of an organization, which support and benefit the organizations. The employees who engage in organizational citizenship behavior may not always be the top performers but they are ones who always make effort to ‘go the extra mile’ or ‘go above and beyond’ the minimum performance required t...

Internal marketing has been applied to organizational employees to foster their shared understanding. This study proposes a multilevel model to depict the causal relationships of market orientation behavior (MOB) with internal marketing, knowledge integration, relationship quality, relational bond (RB), and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). A total of 471 valid responses from employees...

organizational spirituality is a new paradigm that has emerged in organizational behavior district and finds very advocates. spirituality in workplace is referred to an individual attempts for seeking purpose in working life, sense of solidarity with coworkers and alignment with organization's mission and values. spirituality could involve religion viewpoint or not, however, historically i...