Investigating the Factors Affecting Organizational Citizenship behavior in Iran (meta-analysis of existing research)

Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is a new concept in the field of citizenship in organizations and refers to the voluntary behaviors of individuals that affect the organization. This attention to OCB has made in recent years much research done on the factors influencing behavior in the workplace. Due to an increase in OCB research and identifying the factors affecting it, this study aimed to investigate the factors affecting OCB in research conducted in Iran. The research method of this paper is meta-analysis. Population of the study, almost scientific papers that are the subject factors for OCB in 2011 and 2021 were published. Finally, 35 papers were selected and analyzed with the Comprehensive Meta-analysis software. The results showed that relationships of 33 variables were evaluated by OCB in previous research. Among these variables, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and organizational justice had the most impact on OCB. The results of the meta-analysis showed that the effect size between job satisfaction and OCB approximately 0.54, was at a high level. Also, the relationship between organizational commitment and OCB was about 0.44 and at moderate level. Results show that the combined effects of the relationship between Organizational Justice and OCB the equivalent of 0.40, was at a moderate level.