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Influence of Organizational Structure on Organizational Citizenship Behavior


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1 Department of Psychology, K. N. Government Post Graduate Degree College, Gyanpur, Bhadohi, India
2 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India
     

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This study attempts to probe organizational structure as an antecedent of Organizational Citizenship Behavior, OCB. Centralization, Formalization and Task Routineness were taken as the factors of organizational structure. The main objective of this paper is to determine the influence of organizational structure on OCB. For this purpose, a sample of 295 employees belonging to three different types of organizations across public and private sectors was taken to give their responses on organizational structure and OCB scales. It was hypothesized that all the three structure variables taken would be negatively associated to OCB dimensions. However, results only partially supported the hypotheses.
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Seemi Azam
Department of Psychology, K. N. Government Post Graduate Degree College, Gyanpur, Bhadohi, India
Rashmi Kumar
Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India

Abstract


This study attempts to probe organizational structure as an antecedent of Organizational Citizenship Behavior, OCB. Centralization, Formalization and Task Routineness were taken as the factors of organizational structure. The main objective of this paper is to determine the influence of organizational structure on OCB. For this purpose, a sample of 295 employees belonging to three different types of organizations across public and private sectors was taken to give their responses on organizational structure and OCB scales. It was hypothesized that all the three structure variables taken would be negatively associated to OCB dimensions. However, results only partially supported the hypotheses.

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