Abstract:

Businesses ability to survive under today’s intense competition conditions features organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Businesses can vary in terms of characteristics related to the tools and methods to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency. Academic researches focus on these characteristics, what they are and what they may be. In this context, based on the research conducted regarding the organizational structure and employee’s behavior have been showed that features such as organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior contribute to organizational effectiveness and productivity. In this aspect, identifying the relationship between organizational climate and organizational citizenship behavior is crucial for managers through the process of creating human resources policies. The topic of the study is determined in contemplation of the possible relationship that may exist between organizational climate and its sub dimensions and organizational citizenship behavior of employees and its sub dimensions. In the research organizational climate and its sub dimensions are considered as independent variables while organizational citizenship behavior is the dependent variable. Data was collected from respondents determined by simple random sampling method via questionnaire in Ministry of Development in Ankara. The number of the employees consists of 456 in the institution. According to the domestic and foreign assignments and annual leaves current number composes of 300 employees. 159 questionnaires were collected and analyzed. Survey response rate is 53 % and the sample is composed as % 34,8 of the population. Organizational Citizenship Behavior Scale developed by Podsakoff et al and Organizational Climate Scale developed by Litwin et al were used. Analysis were conducted by SPSS 17.0, hypotheses were tested and a positive correlation between organizational climate with organizational citizenship behavior was found (r= 0.475; p< .05). 

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