Effects Of Employee Psychological Ownership On Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Organizational citizenship behavior is one of the most important topics in the field of organizational behavior. The competitions between enterprises have being become more and more drastically as the developing of global economic unity, science and technology. Enterprise, who want to be live and develop in new environment, need to change old mechanical organizational agencies and function into elastic managerial model. In this new model, enterprises can't work smoothly without organizational citizenship behavior. But people don't have this citizenship consciousness and behavior as citizenship. So it has much significance to study organizational citizenship behavior in'helping enterprises adapting to new economic environment. Studies are going on although there have many researches about antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior in or out of our state. The American scholar Pierce J.L et al introduced psychological ownership in 1991. They suggested that psychological ownership can influence employee attitudes and behaviors. In this article, we will study the relationship between psychological ownership and organizational citizenship behavior as there has little research about this topic in our state now.This study takes employees of Zhejiang province as sample, takes empirical research methods to analyze the effects of psychological ownership on organizational citizenship behavior, and analyzes the different role of mediators (affective commitment, normative commitment, continuance commitment) between psychological ownership and organizational citizenship behavior. Also the study analyzes the status of our employees' psychology ownership from personality and enterprise character. There are some significant conclusions which are the academic support for the enterprises to manage psychological ownership and organizational citizenship behavior.The main conclusions are as follows:1. Employee psychological ownership has active influence on organizational citizenship behavior.2. Affective commitment and normative commitment mediate the relationship between psychological ownership and organizational citizenship behavior. Continuance commitment is not the mediator of psychological ownership and organizational citizenship behavior.3. Power appetite and office standing have significant relationship with psychological ownership. Age, marriage and antecedents could cause the difference of psychological ownership, too.