Citizenship and Withdrawal in the Workplace: Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Intention to Leave Current Job and Intention to Leave the Organization

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and employee intention to leave the organization and current job using a sample of French employees. A survey was sent to 1,200 alumni of a business school in France. Participation in the study was voluntary. The participants were 355 working adults with French citizenship. This paper provides several interesting findings. While no relationship was found between altruism and intention to leave both the organization and the current job, sportsmanship, civic virtue and helping others emerged as the strongest predictors of intention to leave the organization and intention to leave the current job. Results are discussed.

Keywords:

• citizenship behavior
• organizational behavior
• work

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Linn Van Dyne, Robert C. Scherer, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and comments.

Notes

1. Thank for the anonymous reviewer that suggested this idea.