The relationship of OCBs to leader ethics was small with the exception of civic virtue, which corelated 0.27 and 0.28, respectively, with top leader and immediate supervisor ethics. Employees who perceived their top leaders and their immediate supervisors to be ethical were also the ones most willing to support the organization beyond their formal job requirements. Research by vey and Campbell (2004) has indicated that most attitudinal items tapping OCBs are considered by independent observers to represent in-role, as opposed to extra role, behavior. Vey and Campbell found, however, that altruism and civic virtue were seen as reliably extra role, with the results for civic virtue strongly suggesting it to be the most "contextual" of the OCBs that have been studied intensively. Its relationship here with ethics perceptions lends credence to this notion.