Organizational effectiveness

Private sector

Organizational citizenship behavior

Organization development

Business

Public sector

Affective events theory

Job attitude

Psychology

Economics

Marketing

Organizational performance

Organizational learning

Job performance

Political science

Chemistry

Management

Sample (material)

Pure mathematics

Job satisfaction

Affect (linguistics)

Citizenship

Dimension (graph theory)

Mathematics

Public relations

Chromatography

Communication

Organizational culture

Social psychology

Organizational commitment

Politics

Sustainability

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.

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