Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Job Tenure: An Empirical Study at Indian Organizations

Abstract

The present investigation was carried out to examine the degree of organizational citizenship behavior exhibited by employees working in Indian organizations. The researcher also sought to determine the relationship between job tenure and organizational citizenship behavior. The sample comprised of 140 employees (75 public sector and 65 MNC employees). Independent t-tests and Pearson Product-moment correlation were the statistical tools used for the analysis of the hypotheses. Analysis of results indicates that employee's working in public sector showed more organizational citizenship behavior in comparison to employees working in MNC. The findings also indicates that there exists a positive correlation between job tenure and OCB (r = .191).