An investigation on the role of organizational climate on organizational citizenship behavior

Abstract: This paper presents an empirical study to investigate the effect of organizational climate on organizational citizenship behavior in one of Iranian automakers. The proposed study uses a standard questionnaire for measuring organizational citizenship behavior, which is adopted from Podsakoff et al. (2000) [Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Paine, J. B., & Bachrach, D. G. (2000). Organizational citizenship behaviors: A critical review of the theoretical and empirical literature and suggestions for future research. Journal of management, 26(3), 513-563.]. The study also uses another questionnaire, which measures organizational climate, which is adopted from Arabac? (2010) [Arabac?, I. B. (2010). Academic and administration personnel & apos; s perceptions of organizational climate (Sample of Educational Faculty of F?rat University). Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2(2), 4445-4450.] and both questionnaires are designed in Likert scale. Cronbach alphas for organizational citizenship behavior and organizational climate are measured as 0.78 and 0.84, respectively, which are above the acceptance level of 0.70. Therefore, we can confirm the validity of both questionnaires. The study is implemented among 200 experts in Iranian automaker, randomly and using Spearman correlation ratio as well as stepwise regression techniques, the study has detected a meaningful relationship between components of organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior.

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 Hajirasouliha, M., Alikhani, E., Faraji, A., Kamali, S., Aziziha, H & Mousavi, S. (2014). An investigation on the role of organizational climate on organizational citizenship behavior.Management Science Letters , 4(4), 771-774.

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