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Exploring organizational citizenship behaviour from an organizational perspective: The relationship between organizational learning and organizational citizenship behaviour
Author(s) -
Somech Anit,
DrachZahavy Anat
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of occupational and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 2044-8325
pISSN - 0963-1798
DOI - 10.1348/0963179041752709
Subject(s) - organizational citizenship behavior , psychology , organizational learning , context (archaeology) , social psychology , perspective (graphical) , organizational commitment , phenomenon , organizational studies , organization development , organizational behavior and human resources , similarity (geometry) , sample (material) , knowledge management , epistemology , public relations , political science , paleontology , philosophy , chemistry , chromatography , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics) , biology
The present study explored the issue of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) as a context‐related phenomenon, from a multidimensional perspective. More specifically, it was hypothesized that organizational learning (structures and learning values) would be positively related to (a) OCB that benefited the organization as a whole (OCBO) and (b) OCB that immediately benefited particular individuals (OCBI). The hypotheses identified the school as the unit of analysis; so all variables were aggregates of individual responses to the organizational level of analysis. Justification for aggregation was provided by a within‐group similarity index ( r wg ) and a within‐ and between‐entities analysis (WABA). Results from a sample of 31 schools confirmed the main hypotheses, and generally supported the notion that OCB could be treated as a context‐related phenomenon. These results should encourage researchers and practitioners to focus more attention on the organizational context and its characteristics as related to OCB.