Meyer and Allen (1991) and Davenport (1999) pointed out that organizational commitment is established when
the employee and the organization develop a greater interest on maintaining their working relationship.
Previous studies has shown that employees who feel emotionally attached to their organisations show more
citizenship behaviour (Meyer, Stanley, Herscovitch, and Topolnytsky, 2002). This relationship is particularly
evident in the case of affective commitment (Meyer and Allen, 1997). Meyer and Allen (1991) proposed that
organisational commitment is a composite of three elements namely, affective, continuance and normative
commitment. The authors’ further defined aaffective commitment as ‘the employee’s emotional attachment to,
identification with, and involvement in the organisation’.
Based on the findings of Becker (1992) there is further support for a significant relationship between
commitment and OCB. Truckenbrodt (2000) suggests that a significant relationship exists between the quality of the
supervisor-subordinate relationship and subordinates’ commitment and altruistic organizational citizenship
behaviour. Employees are more likely to offer extra-role behaviour when they are satisfied with their jobs or
committed to their organisations (Bolino et al., 2002).Therefore, the following hypothesis is proposed:
Hypothesis 2: Commitment significantly affects teachers’ willingness to exhibit organizational citizenship
behavior.