It’s in the Mind-The Relationship between Mindfulness and OCB

Studies have been conducted to show the relationship between mindfulness and various organisational variables, like productivity, work engagement etc. However, there was a dearth of literature examining the impact of mindfulness on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB). In view of the same, this paper attempts to find the impact of mindfulness on OCB using 2 mediating variables, job demands and emotions. While mindfulness allows individuals to deal with increasing job demands successfully, the relationship between job demands and OCB remains inconclusive. On the other hand, there is a significant relation between positive emotions and mindfulness. It has also been proven through various psychological literatures that positive emotions encourage pro social helping behaviour, thus it manifests the positive impact mindfulness has on OCB.