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We gratefully acknowledge research support from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (Grant 494-85-1018) and from a summer research grant from Loyola
University of Chicago's School of Business Administration. Benjamin Foo. Paul Lim. Beverly
Moon, David Shea, and Debbie Stayburg provided excellent technical support. Robert Bies and
L. L. Cummings collected the data for the M.B.A. student sample and permitted its reporting
here. Ron Anton. S.J., L. L. Cummings, Michael Keeley. Dennis Organ, and Judi McLean Parks
offered helpful comments on earlier versions. The first two authors made equal contributions to
this article.
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worth, 1987; O'Reilly & Chatman, 1986; Organ & Konovsky, 1989; Pierce,
Gardner, Cummings, & Dunham, 1989; Podsakoff, MacKenzie, Moorman, &
Fetter, 1990; Puffer, 1987; Scholl, Cooper, & McKenna, 1987; Scholl & Mc-
Kenna, 1983; Smith, Organ, & Near, 1983; Williams & Anderson, 1991;
Williams, Podsakoff, & Huher, 1986].
A common theme of these diverse conceptualizations is an attempt to
identify work hehavior that contrihutes, at least in the long run, to organ-
izational effectiveness, hut which is sometimes overlooked hy the traditional
definitions and measures researchers use to assess joh performance. Graham
(1991) identified two fundamentally different approaches to conceptualizing
these sometimes overlooked behaviors. The first approach proposes that
organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and traditional conceptualiza-
tions of job performance are separate constructs. Early OCB researchers de-
fined citizenship hehavior as separate from in-role joh performance and
emphasized that OCB should he viewed as hoth extra-role and organization-
ally functional (Bateman & Organ, 1983; Smith et al., 1983). Graham (1991)
argued that these criteria put researchers in the awkward position of deter-
mining vi^hat is in-role and what is extra-role, an inconstant distinction that
varies across persons, jobs, and organizations and over time and with cir-
cumstances for individual joh incumhents. To avoid this difficulty, Graham
proposed a second approach based on the theoretical heritage of civic citi-
zenship research in philosophy, political science, and social history. From
that perspective, civic citizenship is viewed as including all positive com-
munity-relevant hehaviors of individual citizens. By extension, Graham ar-
gued that organizationaJ citizenship can he conceptualized as a glohal con-
cept that includes all positive organizationally relevant behaviors of indi-
vidual organization members. Thus, this broader conceptualization of
organizational citizenship includes traditional In-role job performance be-
haviors, organizationally functional extra-role behaviors, and political he-
haviors, such as full and responsihle organizational participation, that typ-
ically have heen omitted from previous studies of citizenship.
In this study, we proposed and tested a conceptualization of organiza-
tional citizenship hehavior hased on an application of political philosophy
to organizational settings. Such an approach has two key advantages. First,
the intellectual heritage of civic citizenship suggests substantive categories
of organizational citizenship behavior. Second, political philosophy also
suggests a nomological network of related constructs. In summary, this ap-
proach provides a theory-grounded definition of OCB, a more comprehen-
sive set of suhstantive citizenship behaviors than has existed, and a theoret-
ical foundation for future research on organizational citizenship.
searchers can develop separate and more detailed nomological networks for
the citizenship categories, each of which most likely has somewhat different
antecedents and consequences. Because at this time the conceptualization of
citizenship hased on political philosophy is in its early stages, it would be
premature to hypothesize different relationships for each category. To facil-
itate the future development of separate nomological networks for each cat-
egory, however, the discussion section of this article explores the multidi-
mensionality of the citizenship construct by examining the different rela-
tionships revealed by the empirical analysis.
Political philosophy suggests that the nature of the relationship citizens
have with their government is critical to their citizenship behavior. The
active citizenship syndrome is based on covenantai relationship, which is
characterized by open-ended commitment, mutual trust, and shared values
[Bromley & Busching, 1988; Elazar, 1980; Graham, 1991; Graham & Organ.
1993; Grover. 1982). Covenants descrihe relationships of mutual commit-
ment in which specific behaviors required to maintain the relationship or
pursue common ends are not specifiable in advance (DePree, 1989). A cov-
enant is "not a bargain but a pledge" (Rowley. 1962:1515). a mutual promise
by individuals to do their best to serve common values for an indefinite
period. In contrast to contractual, exchange, or other instrumental relation-
ships [Blau, 1964), covenants are existential; they focus on a state of being
and involve intrinsically motivated effort rather than earning something or
getting somewhere. In a covenantai relationship, "the partners do not auto-
matically live happily ever after, but they are bound by covenant to struggle
toward such an end" (Elazar, 1980:10). This means that covenantai partners
can disagree about particulars without threatening the existence of the rela-
tionship and can forgive each other should disappointing performance oc-
cur. The more strongly a person identifies with the collective entity [such as
a particular relationship or community) and feels valued and values the
connection, the less that individual will rely on legal sanctions to resolve
difficulties [Macneil, 1985) and the more he or she will be an active con-
tributor to the community [Almond & Verha, 1963; Verha & Nie, 1972). Thus,
covenant is conceptualized as a reciprocal relationship based on ties that
hind individuals to their communities and communities to their members
(Kanter, 1968).
Macneil [1985) described a continuum that ranges from exchange con-
tracts to relational contracts. The latter are open-ended, nonarticulated, and
subjective, and they evolve over time [Rousseau & McLean Parks. 1993).
Several different types of relational contracts, including covenants, social
exchange, and psychological contracts, can be differentiated from each other
and from transactional, or exchange, contracts [Bromley & Busching. 1988).
Graham and Organ [1993) contrasted social exchange contracts and cove-
nants. Social exchange is based on a long-run exchange of fairness that does
not require a precise accounting and is based on reciprocity in the sense of
diffuse obligations to reciprocate fairly. Trust and good faith guide the form
and timing of reciprocating gestures and, according to Organ [1988). will
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FIGURE 1
Model of Organizational Citizenship Behavior
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METHODS
Data and Procedures
Results were based on questionnaire responses from six sets of respon-
dents totaling 950 employees and 169 supervisors. Five of these sets were
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part of initial data collection effort, and the final data were collected later for
cross-validation of the new instrument presented here, including assessment
of construct validity, reliability, and factor structure (see Table 1). The orig-
inal data set included respondents from a professional accounting firm (N =
90), a savings and loan organization (N = 131), a social service agency (N =
40], a construction products firm (N = 145), and students in an evening
master's of husiness administration degree program (N = 132). All respon-
dents participated voluntarily in this university research project that was
approved hy their managers or instructors. Assurances of anonymity were
made and kept. Employee respondents at two of the organizations completed
questionnaires at group meetings conducted on site by one of us. Employee
respondents at the other two organizations and all supervisory respondents
completed questionnaires on their own and returned them hy mail. Overall,
the response rate for these four organizations was 52.4 percent from employ-
ees and 30.7 percent from supervisors.
The cross-validation data were collected from 85 supervisors from 48
organizations who provided information on the organizational citizenship
hehavior of 412 suhordinates. These data were used to assess the dimen-
sionality and internal consistency reiiahility of the OCB instrument. A sub-
group of the supervisors from this data set (N = 47, 55%] completed a
second questionnaire on 233 employees four weeks after the first question-
naire to allow assessment of test-retest reliahiiity. Of the 107 supervisors
who initially agreed to provide data, 85 (79%) completed the first question-
naire and 47 (44%) completed both questionnaires.
TABLE 1
Breakdown of Samples and Analytic Procedures
Original Cross-Validation
Type of Response Data Data Totals
Self-reporting employees 538'* 538
Employees supervisors reported on 154"
412= 566
Timel
Time 2 233^
Supervisors reporting on subordinates 84
Time 1 85 169
Time 2 47
Total employees 950^*
" Number of employee self-reports for instrument development factor analysis.
'' Number of matched pairs of supervisor and subordinate responses for testing hypotheses
and initial internal consistency reliability.
•• Number of subordinates whose OCB was described by 85 supervisors for cross-validation
internal consistency reliability,
•I Number of subordinates wbose OCB was described by 47 supervisors for test-retest reli-
ability.
« Total employees, including 538 self-reports (154 matched pairs, 384 employee self-
reports) and 412 cross-validation supervisor reporting.
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1976). The second part of the measure (15 items], representing an employ-
ee's relationship with an organization, was measured by Mowday and col-
leagues' (1982] Organizational Commitment Questionnaire, which measures
shared values and goals, intent to remain a memher of an organization, and
willingness to exert extra effort on its hehalf. Together, the items in these two
subscales (see the Appendix) measure the reciprocal relationship between
an employee and an organization. Because the numher of items in the two
suhscaies is unequal, the 8 items representing the organization's relationship
and 15 items representing the employee's relationship were each standard-
ized and then averaged to form the combined measure of covenantal rela-
tionship. The reliahility (Cronbach's alpha) of the 23-item scale was .90,
indicating a unidimensional construct that captures employee perceptions
about the mutual relationship hetween employees and their organizations.
Overall job satisfaction was measured by 37 items from the Index of
Organizational Reactions assessing satisfaction with supervision, co-
workers, kind and amount of work, physical working conditions, pay, and
career prospects (Dunham et al.. 1977; Smith, 1976]. Cronbach's alpha for
this measure was .93. We measured cynicism by summing responses to three
dichotomous response questions and then dividing by three to create a con-
tinuous variable with a range of 1 to 2. These questions (see the Appendix]
were taken from the Ceneral Social Survey (Davis, 1980), and they assess a
general predisposition toward a cynical view of human nature. The Cron-
bach's alpha was .74. Workplace values were assessed by 12 questions de-
veloped for this study concerning employee perceptions of the value their
organizations placed on quality, innovation, cooperation, and wide partici-
pation in decision making (see the Appendix). Cronbach's alpha was .89. We
used the Job Diagnostic Survey (Hackman & Oldham, 1975,1976] to measure
job characteristics, which we then combined multiplicatively to calculate
the motivating potential score (MPS) for each respondent's joh. Cronbach's
alpha was .87. Organizational tenure was reported by respondents and was
measured in months. We determined job level (low, medium, or high) by
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specific content knowledge for each joh and the researcher explained the desired meaning of
low. medium, and high and provided continuity in determining these classifications across the
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233 subordinates four weeks after the first data collection (the average num-
ber of days later was 29.67, s.d. = 7.96). Test-retest results were .81 for
obedience, .88 for loyalty. .76 for social participation. .83 for advocacy par-
ticipation, .83 for functional participation, and .92 for the entire 34-item
OCB scale.^
Evidence of construct validity. The foundation provided by the theo-
retical framework we developed is a strength of this research, especially
since many of the other instruments in the literature have been developed
without explicit theoretical frameworks. For example. Schnake noted that
Smith and colleagues' (1983) and Bateman and Organ's (1983) instruments
do not "represent a comprehensive list of citizenship behaviors" (1991: 738)
and said that a more theoretically grounded approach was required for re-
search to proceed rapidly and efficiently. Although the theoretical founda-
tion provided by political philosophy differentiates our research from other
OCB research, it is still important to explore the construct validity of our
instrument. This exploration involved three sets of analyses: (1) Assessment
of the convergent validity in the cross-validation data of the overall OCB
scale through comparison of supervisor responses to the new scale with
supervisor responses to three general items designed to assess the overall
citizenship behavior of subordinates, (2) confirmatory factor analysis of the
new measure on the cross-validation data with factor loadings based a priori
on the theory presented here, and (3) assessment of the relationships pro-
posed in our preliminary nomological network (the hypothesis testing re-
ported later in this article). Although none of these steps can prove the
construct validity of an instrument (Nunnally, 1967; Schwab. 1980). we
suggest that the pattern of results achieved provides strong preliminary sup-
port for the construct validity of this measure. Results of all three sets of
analyses indicate that the instrument measures what it was intended to
measure.
The first analysis focused on the convergent validity of the new measure
and three items designed specifically for this research to measure overall
citizenship behavior. Pearson product-moment correlation analyses of re-
sponses from 85 supervisors on 412 subordinates in the cross-validation data
supported convergent validity here (r = .69, p < .001). Second, the confir-
matory factor analysis described above also provides preliminary support for
the construct validity of the new citizenship scale.
The third and final set of analyses concerning the construct validity of
the new OCB instrument is the hypothesis testing of the preliminary nomo-
logical network. Of the three approaches we used to explore construct va-
lidity, this third approach is both the most critical and the most profound for
two reasons. First, we based the hypotheses on the theoretical framework
^ We note that the test-retest reliability for the entire scale is higher than the test-retest
reliability for the subdimensions of the scale. This is because the subdimensions include fewer
items and consequently are more sensitive to changes in responses than tbe full 37-item scale.
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TABLE 5
• of Mediated Regression Analysis'
motivating potential, and job level, and partial mediation for cynicism. Mod-
erate support is indicated for social participation, with full mediation indi-
cated for job satisfaction, values, and motivating potential, and partial me-
diation indicated for job level. In contrast, results indicate only weak sup-
port for mediated effects on advocacy participation. Of the six relationships
that have advocacy participation as the dependent variable, only two suggest
that the independent variable influences advocacy participation through
covenantal relationship: motivating potential has fully mediated effects and
job level has partially mediated effects. In conclusion, results of these hy-
pothesis tests support the conceptualization of OCB as multidimensional.
The pattern of results also provides support for the mediating role of cove-
nantal relationship for loyalty, functional participation, and social partici-
pation.
of the personal, situational, and positional factors. Thus, if any causal arrows
are in the opposite direction, they most likely could only be those for the
relationships between covenantal relationship and the substantive catego-
ries of citizenship. In view of this limitation, however, future research
should include experimental designs in which key variahles can he manip-
ulated and causality assessed under more tightly controlled circumstances.
A second limitation of the present design is the preliminary status of the
nomological network. The model most likely does not include all relevant or
important constructs. Accordingly, future research should include deeper
theoretical development of the nomological network for covenantal relation-
ship. In addition, future researchers should explore the dimensionality of
citizenship in more detail and develop specific hypotheses for each dimen-
sion and a variety of different constructs in the network. Additionally, po-
tential moderators that may influence the relationships found in this study
should he examined. A third limitation of the study concerns the results of
the confirmatory factor analysis. Even after deletion of three items, the good-
ness-of-fit index reached only .80, suggesting the citizenship scale can most
likely be further improved through additional iterative work that may lead to
a more effective factor structure.
The study has, however, some notable strengths. First, the conceptual-
ization and operational definition of the new OCB instrument were theoret-
ically driven. Theory was the source of the proposed dimensions. Thus,
although the results of the confirmatory factor analysis suggested minor
modifications, and the goodness-of-fit results indicated that the measure
could be further improved, it is unlikely that the basic conceptualization and
dimensionalization will expand to include additional major subdimensions.
This conceptualization of OCB is in sharp contrast to some of the earlier
work on citizenship, which, as Moorman and Blakely (1992) noted, ex-
panded the number of citizenship dimensions beyond the initial conceptu-
alization on an ad hoc basis without explicit theoretical grounding. In con-
trast, we based our instrument on political philosophy and initially designed
it to sample all key aspects of the theoretically defined domain (Carmines &
Zeller, 1979; DeVellis, 1991). Our use of substantive theory to determine
what to measure should minimize expansion of the dimensions of citizen-
ship.
A second major strength of the study is the inclusion of both primary,
developmental data from 538 employees and cross-validation data from 412
employees. Both Schwab (1980) and DeVellis (1991) stressed the importance
of testing the reliability and factor analytic structure of a newly developed
instrument on new samples to assess construct validity. Analysis of the
homogeneity of scale items, internal consistency reliability, test-retest reli-
ability, and convergent validity characteristics of the measure all support its
construct validity.
A third major strength of the study is that it goes heyond existing con-
ceptualizations, providing a more diverse set of behaviors representing a
richer, more comprehensive conceptualization of organizational citizenship
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APPENDIX
Original or Uncommon Questionnaire Items"
Covenantal Relationship (23 items)
Part A: Organ iza lion a I relationship with employees (8 items)
individualized consideration
My superior gives personal attention to subordinates wbo seem neglected.
My superior delegates responsibilities to me to provide me with training opportunities.
My superior treats each subordinate as an individual.
My superior spends a lot of time coaching eacb individual subordinate who needs it.
My superior gives newcomers a lot of help.
Company identification
I think [organization name] considers employees mucb less important than sales and profits
(1) to mucb more important tban sales and profits (5).
How do you describe [organization name[ as a company to work for? poor {1). just anotber
place to work (2), fairly good (3), very good (4), couldn't be much better (5).
From my experience, I feel [organization name] probably treats its employees: poorly (1),
somewhat poorly (2), fairly well (3), quite well (4). extremely well (5).
Part B: Employee reiotion.ship with organization (15 items)
Organizational Commitment Questionnaire
Linn Van Dyne received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota and is
currently an assistant professor of management at Michigan State University. Her re-
search interests focus on proactive employee behaviors involving initiative such as
affiliative and challenging extra-role behavior, minority influence, and feedback-
seeking behavior. She also researches group composition, employee attachment, cross-
cultural issues, and human resources policy issues.
Jill W. Graham received her Ph.D. degree in organizational behavior from Northwestern
University and is currently an associate professor of management at Loyola University
of Chicago. Her research interests concern various forms of virtue in organizational life,
including principled dissent, activist loyalty, servant leadership, and value-driven stra-
tegic management.
Richard M. Dienesch received his Ph.D. degree in organizational behavior from the
Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research interests include leadership, con-
flict resolution, and cross-cultural issues in organizational hehavior.