Talk:Organizational citizenship behavior

A recurring theme in studies of very low-IQ individuals is that their social adaptation is greatly enhanced by certain personality traits, particularly persistence and a willingness to adhere to their community’s rules and norms. These findings dovetail with recent research in industrial-organizational psychology on the importance of workers’ "organizational citizenship behavior" (OCB; Organ, 1994) and "contextual performance" (Cascio, 1995). These are the more discretionary, pro-social job behaviors that contribute to a group’s or organization’s effectiveness, but which are more constrained by workers’ intent than ability - for example, helping others with heavy workloads and always being punctual. "Altruism" and "conscientiousness" seem to be the most important, but "courtesy," "sportsmanship," and "civic virtue" are other documented OCB factors (Organ, 1994). Supervisors and peers highly value these "will do" as distinct from "can do" attributes of workers. 

Above quote from Guttmundson. 19:08, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

What is it
Opening paragraph does not contain any explanation, summary or otherwise, of what an OCB is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LeoEvilsbane (talk • contribs) 12:08, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Extra-role behavior section
The syntax in the last sentence is missing a comma after "This", it should read: "This, again, is a construct very similar to OCB." I think the section would be better off if this sentence was deleted completely. I don't think reiterating the fact that it's similar to OCB is necessary since it's already in the "Similar constructs" section. DPetruseski (talk) 03:19, 19 July 2015 (UTC)