Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Polish Education Sector

Abstract

Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) regard voluntary behaviors that go beyond the scope of employee job responsibilities and are beneficial for organizational performance. The issue of OCB is discussed in the literature since 80s of the XX century. However the problem referring to the impact of the organization type, namely private or public, on the scope and frequency of OCB is underresearched. The paper is an attempt to respond this research gap. The purpose of the study presented in the paper is to assess the frequency of OCBs demonstration by employees of educational institutions. In our paper we hypothesize that OCBs are more frequent among employees of the public schools in comparison with employees of private schools that are profit-oriented.