Office Housework, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Work Ethic: A Correlational Study

Abstract

This research focused on the relationship between individual work ethic and how that impacts employee contextual job performance, including both organizational citizenship behaviors and office housework. The office housework literature has grown over the past few years, but there is much research still needed to understand this contextual job behavior. Correlations between work ethic, organizational citizenship behaviors, and office housework were tested. A relationship was found between office housework and organizational citizenship behaviors aimed at the individual (OCB-Is), but not organizational citizenship behaviors focused on the organization (OCB-Os). Additionally, work ethic did not significantly relate to organizational citizenship behaviors focused on the organization (OCB-Os). Office housework and OCB-Is were both related to four work ethic dimensions: centrality of work, hard work, wasted time, and delay of gratification. Findings of this study help demonstrate the similarities and differences in the relationship between office housework and organizational citizenship behaviors, using work ethic. Further studies should attempt to help define the different types of contextual job performance behaviors, and what drives employees to complete them.