The effect of work ethics on organizational citizenship behavior and an application

The main purpose of this study is to examine the effects of workers? perceptions related to their work ethics on their organizational citizenship behaviors. Organizational citizenship behaviors performed voluntarily by workers consist of behaviors which increase the efficiency and performance of the organizations. Work ethics include the ethics which enriches the work. As the workers? behaviors to work ethics increases, their tendency to show organizational citizenship behaviors will also increase so that the efficiency and quality supplemented by workers will be higher.In the first part of this study, fundamental definitions related to the organizational citizenship behaviors and the information linked to this topic are given. In the second part, work ethics is examined in details. In the third part, relation between work ethics and organizational citizenship behavior, and the effects of work ethics on organizational citizenship behavior are studied. This study includes a research on workers who work at an automotive sector.The significant portion of analyses results support the hypothesis. It is seen that the work ethic has a positive and apparent effect on organizational citizenship behaviors.Keywords:Work Ethics, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Automotive Sector