Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Well-being: Preliminary Results

The purpose of this work was to study the relationship between prosocial behaviour and well-being, specifically to examine the relationship between organizational cit izenship behavior, cit izenship motives, perceptions of organizational cit izenship behavior as in- vs. e xtra -role and emp loyee well-being. A total of 144 people at 17 educational companies comp leted surveys measuring the above constructs. Both organizational cit izenship behavior and its motives were associated with well-being, with altru istic motives showing a stronger correlation than egoistic motives. The perception of OCB as in-role was also related with well-being. The results are discussed based on previous evidence.