Assessment of teachers' perceptions of organizational citizenship behaviors and psychological empowerment: An empirical analysis in Turkey

Abstract

Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCM) are discretionary individual behaviors that are not directly recognized by the reward system, but in the aggregate promote the overall effectiveness and functioning of the organization. Scholarly concern in OCB has increased dramatically over the past two decades. Nevertheless, there are significant research gaps and key issues yet to he addressed. Furthermore, employee empowerment can be conceptualized as the symbolic construction of the personal state of employees characterized by competence, or the skill and ability to perform effectively, and control, or the authority and autonomy to act. The main purpose of our study is to measure of organizational citizenship behaviors and psychological empowerment on teachers.

This empiric research is planned to be realized by surveying method. Teachers in province Bursa have been reached and asked to participate in the study. We reached to 332 participants. The survey instrument included organizational citizenship behaviors, psychological empowerment and demographic questions about the participants. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.