Extra Role behavior: Finding a Link between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Work life Interface among female professionals.

Organizational citizenship behavior is a job behavior that contributes to the organizational efficiency at least in long span of time, but which is mostly not considered while measuring and rating the work performance of employees. Work family interface or work-life balance refer to effective performance and self satisfaction at job and at home without overlapping of work and family. Susana & Ramón (2013) commented that “researches on work life balance did not had much momentum till late 1960s, after Kahn et al. (1964) highlighted that work-family conflict is an important reason of stress for working professional. Pointing to work life balance the idea of equilibrium between personal life and work life is used to refer to the betterment of both areas”. Many researchers have identified that a balanced work family life stimulate extra role behavior among employees. This research paper is an attempt for finding this link between OCB and WLB in context of Indian working professionals of higher education institutes. Today lot work is being done for the upliftment of female working professionals in India. Inspired by these attempts, present study is a brief attempt understand the impact which healthy work family balance leave on extra role behaviors of women employees at workplace. The survey was done on 220 female academicians of Northern India working in higher education institutes. Data was analyzed using AMOSS 23 and SPSS 23. The results of this study display a moderate relationship between OCB and WLB. An interesting additional outcome of current study is a direct and significant relationship between factors of WLB and sportsmanship (a factor of OCB). Though this relationship is debatable and leaves scope for further researches but it was a non hypothesized relationship and something to ponder.