Page No – 341-353
Ajay K Jain
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.
The purpose of this article is to investigate how different dimensions of
organizational structure predict various forms of organizational citizenship
behaviours (OCBs) within the work setting of motorbike organizations in India.
Literature survey shows a very little work is done to explore the relationship
between organizational structure and OCBs. The data were collected from a
sample of 250 male middle level executives from six motorbike manufacturing
organizations located in northern part of India. The data was collected through a
questionnaire in face to face condition. Results of Stepwise regression analysis
show that Centralization, Participation and Job Specificity dimensions of structure
were found to be the positive predictors of different dimensions of OCB where as
Centralization, Innovation and Job Autonomy were found to be negative predictors
of different dimensions of OCB. These results can be used to design the
organizations to promote specific forms of OCB that suits to the organizational
purpose. The results further strengthen the idea of contextual specific OCBs.