Organizational citizenship behavior: Comparing perspectives of supervisorsand subordinates across four international samples

A total of 431 independent supervisor and subordinate dyads from the United States, Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong evaluated the perceived job role b oundary of the subordinates. Participants rated the degree to which they ag reed that the behavior described in the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) scale developed by P. M. Podsakoff, S. B. MacKenzie, R. H. Moorman, and R. Fetter (1990) was an expected part of the subordinate's job. Each su pervisor was paired with only one subordinate, and all participants held th e same jobs in the same company but with branches in these 4 nations. The s cale used was found to have conceptual equivalence across all subsamples. R esults indicated that supervisors had broader definitions of job roles than subordinates. Participants from Hong Kong and Japan were also more likely to regard some categories of OCB as an expected part of the job than were p articipants from the United States and Australia.