The “extra-role behaviours” proposed by Katz (1964) defined the behaviours which employees assumed
voluntarily in order to contribute to the progress of the organization. The syntagm organizational citizenship
behavior was first used by Bateman & Organ (1983). Later, Organ (1988) defined organizational citizenship
behavior (OCB) as “individual behavior that is not explicitly or indirectly recognized by the formal reward system and that behaviour plays a vital role in the effective functioning of the organization.” Subsequent to the 80’s, the
determinants of the good soldier syndrome were sought. One of the possible determinants, job satisfaction, was
intensively studied, both in terms of the association with and prediction of the OCB. But results are inconsistent.
There is the belief, not always sustained by data, that the employees who are satisfied with their work develop OCB
easier, based on a reciprocity relation (Gadot & Cohen, 2004). Many results come in support of this belief, as Organ
& Lingl (1995) demonstrate in their meta-analysis study. Moorman (1993) lays emphasis on the fact that job
satisfaction measures, which reflect a cognitive basis, would be more strongly related to OCB than measures of job
satisfaction which reflect an affective basis.
The affective state, the situational factors and the individual differences such as consciousness, agreeability,
positive affectivity, self-esteem, need for affiliation, empathy, and field dependence were identified as determinants
of the OCB (Cummings & McLean Parks, 1995; Smith, Organ & Near, 1983; Van Dyne). Workplace attachment
constitutes a better predictor of the organisational citizenship behaviour as compared to the organisational
commitment (Le Roy, & Rioux, 2013; Rioux, 2012).
There are relatively few studies of the OCB conducted on the Romanian population, (Popescu & Vladescu, 2011;