The effect of organizational climate on organizational citizenship behaviors and an application of a military institution

Organizational climate is the internalisation of organizational conditions, detection and identification of the internal environment of the organization by members. Organizational climate varies depending on the personality, the organization and the environment; creates the personality of the organization; separates the organization from other organizations; becomes constant and unchanged in the course of time. Organizational climate affects the other dimensions of the organization, giving meanings to it and make it functional. An organization, the sub-units and working groups may have different climates.Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is to show an effort and an optional extra-role behavior beyond the standards and job descriptions in the organization. OCBs are optional and voluntary behaviors outside of the formal reward system and job descriptions and contribute to the organizational effectiveness. Behaviors which shown because of certain expectations or the directives and reactions are not OCBs. Studies on OCBs are common due to analyzing and understanding the importance of individual attitudes and behaviors in the organizations. OCBs are very important for the integration of employee assistance for the realization of organizational objectives, formation of a collaborative environment, improving organizational effectiveness and employee job satisfaction and loyalty.According to findings on the impact of organizational climate on OCBs in a military institution; the staff has a positive opinion about organizational climate at the middle level and has a positive opinion about the OCBs at the highest level; between status variable with sportsmanship dimension of OCB, between education variable with sportsmanship dimension of OCB, between professional seniority variable with sportsmanship dimension of OCB, between department variable with altruism and scrupulousness dimensions of OCB, between administrative dimension of organizational climate with civic virtue dimension of OCB and between organizational climate with sportsmanship dimension of OCB significant relationships were found.