The primary objective of the paper is to assess the significant differences in the climate profile and organizational citizenship behaviors of teachers working in public and private schools. The study reveals that teachers working in public schools exhibit higher levels of OCBs and that public schools offer a more positive working climate in comparison to private schools.Hence, appropriate measures have to be implemented and maintained in schools to meet global challenges. This is possible only if the school personnel—administrators, teachers and the principal—perform effectively, beyond the formal role requirements.
In
today's highly competitive environment, organizations are constantly looking for
new ways to maximize employees' work efforts. Even with the widespread use of
information technology, there seems to be a lacuna in the effective functioning
of organizations. It is now firmly believed that the effective functioning of
an organization depends largely on employee efforts that extend beyond formal
role requirements. Bateman and Organ (1983) first used the term Organizational
Citizenship Behavior (OCB), and defined them it as the `beneficial behavior of
workers that is not prescribed but occurred freely to help others achieve the
task at hand'.
The
concept of organizational citizenship behavior has created waves in the field
of . The concept has definitely helped organizations to
become innovative, flexible, productive and responsive, enabling their survival
and success. Recent studies have found that OCB is related to ethical behavior
and that it captures the essence of human performance. Moreover, the concept is
particularly important in the service sector and has been implemented in hospitals,
restaurants and many other organizations. But the concept has been neglected in
the study of schools. Psychologists have assumed that to meet the new standards
set for schools, school personnel must go well beyond minimum performance of their
duties.
The concept of OCB has been implemented in public and private organizations to
facilitate their effective functioning, but in the educational field, OCB is still
an unfamiliar concept. OCB is a useful term to describe voluntary teacher behavior
that goes "an extra mile" to help students and colleagues to succeed. |
