The present study aimed to determine the effects of OCB and WDB on the performance of business
units. The unit of analysis in the present study was group level, that is, the points of investigation were
the relationships of group-level OCB and WDB with business unit effectiveness. The present study can
contribute to the literature in three important ways. First, although group-level effects of OCB on performance have been empirically evaluated, no such investigation has been conducted with respect to
WDB. As mentioned earlier, there are good reasons why we might suspect that a prevalence of WDB
within a business unit would hold implications for business unit effectiveness (e.g., for maintaining a
positive interactive base or for saving resources required to solve problems arising due to these behaviors). Podsakoff and MacKenzie (1997) also recommended that future research should investigate
how this type of behavior might influence overall business unit effectiveness