Uncovering Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behaviourand Workplace Deviance: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Industrial and organizational psychological research lays emphasis on two dimensional studies organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and Workplace Deviant Behaviour (WDB) to enhance job performance. These two employee behaviours have been studied widely to find out their impact on performance but seldom that these two dimensions are studied together. Though they both fall into the same category as voluntary behaviour of an employee but former are found to results in increasing the organisational effectiveness and latter leads to deviation from work resulting in lower productivity. Despite the generally negative relationship between organizational citizenship behaviours and counterproductive work behaviours, employees are often found engage in both. To understand the OCB–WDB relationship, a study was conducted among the 102 academician of Delhi/NCR. Correlation analysis found results having a moderately low positive relationship (0.163), which is surprisingly different from usual expectations.