*Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Waljat College of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 197, Rusayl, P.C. 124, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
**Lecturer, Higher College of Technology, Muscat, Oman
***EMBA Student, Department of Management, Waljat College of Applied Sciences, P.O. Box 197, Rusayl, P.C. 124, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Online published on 15 March, 2016.
Antecedents of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and OCB were studied in the banking sector in sultanate of Oman. The antecedents of OCB include Altruism, Conscientiousness and Civic Virtue in the study. Causal research design was adopted and purposive sampling was used. Unit of analysis was middle level manager in private sector banks. 50 Questionnaires were analyzed from different branches in Bank Muscat from Muscat governorate to identify the relationship between the antecedents of OCB and OCB. Results indicated that Civic Virtue explained more variance towards the construct of OCB compared to Conscientiousness and Altruism. Smart PLS software was used to verify the measurement and structural model in the study. The variance explained by the antecedents to OCB was highly significant with the value of high R2 (.802). It was found that structural model has significant high global predictive ability.
Banking sector, causal research, measurement model, organizational citizenship behavior, structural equation model
