The Relationship between Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in the Public and Private Sectors

Dorota Grego-Planer
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Dorota Grego-Planer: Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, ul. Gagarina 13A, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 22, 1-20

Abstract: Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs) are activities which are voluntary, go beyond the formal obligations of employees, and significantly affect the efficiency of the entire organization. The literature has devoted a lot of attention to them since the beginning of the 1980s. Not only has the nature of OCBs been studied, but so too have their dimensions and antecedents. However, there is a fairly significant research gap in the area of employee manifestations of citizenship behaviors according to type of organization (private and public sectors). This article addresses the issue of organizational commitment as one of the antecedents of OCBs. The research objective is to identify and assess the level of correlation between individual dimensions of organizational commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in public and private organizations in Poland. A quantitative study conducted on a sample of 323 employees allowed the hypotheses to be verified. In general, there are similar frequencies of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in the public and private sectors. In public institutions, however, OCBs in the interpersonal dimension are more frequent, while in private institutions they occur more commonly in the organizational dimension. Most positively correlated with OCBs is the affective dimension of organizational commitment.

Keywords: organizational citizenship behavior; organizational commitment; affective commitment; normative commitment; continuance commitment; public and private sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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