ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR - CONSTRUCT REDEFINITION, MEASUREMENT, AND VALIDATION

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is reconceptualized in terms of civic citizenship as described in political philosophy. We used th is theoretical foundation to derive substantive categories of OCB and to propose a nomological network of its potential antecedents. We also propose a new measurement of organizational citizenship behavior base d on these substantive categories. Finally, data from 950 employees in diverse organizational and occupational contexts support the construc t validity of the measurement of OCB proposed here.