An Exploration of Academic Staff's Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior in Relation to Demographic Characteristics

This paper investigates the relationship between academic staff's demographic characteristics (age, gender, rank, and tenure) and their Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Counterproductive Work Behavior(CWB). Participants were selected from 50 public universities throughout Turkey. Data collected from 645 academicians were used in the study. And Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U and Bonferroni Correction were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that older academic staff display more OCB and less CWB than younger staff. Moreover, women and men showed no difference in OCB directed to their colleagues and organization. Interpretations of results, limitations and future research were discussed.