This study addressed the role of motives and personality in organizational citizenship behavior. Two motives were identified altruistic motives and impression management motives, I provide a framework showing these motives may motivate citizenship behavior. Because organizational citizenship behavior may serve different needs or motives for different individu, the measurement of these motives will improve the prediction of organizational citizenship behavior.
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a kind of contextual performance, a prosocial action, and personality trait involves prosocial thought, feelings, and action It is suggested that engaging in OCB might affect a person's self­ concept. This research used structural equation modeling to analyze why individu performs organizational citizenship behavior throughout the relationship model among attribution theory, personality theory and organizational citizenship behavior