Abstract:

Personal and organizational factors, which have effect on personal behaviors, can increase organizational performance and effectiveness by protecting the organization from unwanted behaviors and can have an effect on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCB). In this study, locus of control (LOC) has been included to the research as a personal variable and organizational justice perception and organizational commitment have been included to the research as organizational variables to put forth their effects on OCB on a holistic approach. The data was gathered from 232 public managers and analyzed with structural equation modeling approach. The findings support the findings of the previous studies, which investigated two sided relationships between the variables. Besides these findings, taken the relationships among the variables as a whole, LOC, organizational justice and organizational commitment have direct effects on OCB and organizational justice has a mediating effect between LOC and OCB.

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