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...

This research has been designed and conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire as an instrument in sports environment to assess the status of organizational citizenship behavior dimensions among the athletes of clubs. A 20-question questionnaire has been designed to measure the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior by st...

Using meta-analytic tests based on 87 statistically independent samples, we investigated the relationships between the five-factor model (FFM) of personality traits and organizational citizenship behaviors in both the aggregate and specific forms, including individual-directed, organization-directed, and change-oriented citizenship. We found that Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Openness/...

This article briefly introduces the criterion construct, citizenship performance, describes how this construct is different from task performance and presents a recently derived 3-dimension model of the domain. Evidence is then reviewed for links between personality constructs and citizenship performance. An update of the Organ and Ryan (1995) meta-analysis of personality-organizational citizen...

Ever since early works (Barnard, 1938; Katz & Kahn, 1966) first exalted the importance to the organization of spontaneous behaviors exceeding formal expectations, a large volume of role research has emerged, most of which has focused on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). The organizational behavior literature is replete with studies of individual roles in organizations, focusing almos...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the, relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among 186 experts of Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance (MEAF) in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – The papers develops a research model based on current literature and then test this model in MEAF selected from 18 Ministry, public sector in Iran. St...