African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4194

Full Length Research Paper

A comprehensive model for identifying factors impacting on development of organizational citizenship behavior

  Hassan Zarei Matin, Gholamreza Jandaghi* and Freyedon Ahmadi
  Department of Management, University of Tehran, Iran.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 16 August 2010
  •  Published: 18 August 2010

Abstract

 

The purpose of this paper is formulating the comprehensive model for identify factors that have impact on development of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in Iranian petrol national company. To achieve the purpose mentioned above, questionnaire survey method was used. In this research, impacts of five factors such as leadership, personality, structural, cultural and value factor on development of OCB were examined. Results indicate that OCB is high in units and their manager used transformational stale, their employee have personality trait such as emotional stability, extraversion, openness, agreeableness  and conscientiousness, also their organizational culture was process oriented, employee oriented, have an open system and loose control. Finally, findings in this research are shown that social capital and organizational justice enhance OCB in organizations.

 

Key words: Leadership factors, personality factors, structural factors, cultural factors, value factors.