A research on determining the relationship between Whistleblowing and organizational citizenship behavior

The aim of this study is to describe organizational citizenship behaviour and whistleblowing and investigate the relationship between these behaviours. In the study, organizational citizenship behaviour and whistleblowing concepts are primarily introduced within theoretical framework through an extensive literature review. The first two sections deal with the definitions, dimensions, antecedents and results of the concepts. In the third and final section, we investigated whether there is a relationship between the academicians' organizational citizenship behaviours and whistleblowing behaviors. Considering they are both extra-role behaviours, it was assumed that the individuals with a high degree of organizational citizenship behaviours are also inclined to exhibit whistleblowing behaviours. Thesis research was conducted at Dumlupınar University with the participation of 226 academic staff. According to the research results; the academicians' level of perception related to organizational citizenship behaviours are considerably high; their perception levels are high related to internal whistleblowing and non-action and moderate about formal whistleblowing, while their perception levels related to external and informal whistleblowing are low. As a result of the correlation analysis, a positive correlation has been observed between internal and formal whistleblowing and altruism, civic virtue and courtesy dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviour; however, the same relationship does not apply to external and informal whistleblowing. We have also found that there is negative correlation between sportsmanship and external and informal whistleblowing while there is a positive relationship between sportsmanship and non-action; however, there is no relationship between sportsmanship and internal and formal whistleblowing.