The Explanation of Categories and Concepts of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors with an Islamic-Iranian Approach; Meta- synthesis

The efforts for improvement of performance have been recognized as basic element since formation of management field. In contrary to the past which the employees were expected to act in the formal role, more behavior's of roles are expected in the new psychological contracts. In several sources, these behaviors are considered as organizational citizenship behaviors with various dimensions that mainly are put forward by the scholars of other countries and therefore, there must not be enough regional and national models in this field. The main purpose of this research is to offer categories and concepts of organizational citizenship behaviors according to our Islamic and national culture. This research is a grounded theory in purpose, descriptive in data gathering and qualitative in methodology by using meta-synthesis method. By referring to religious and national references, related codes and data since 60s were driven and finally, 43 concepts and 9 categories were concluded. These categories are: wisdom, critical insight, justice, altruism, good temper, virtue, cooperation, adherence to commitments and willingness to progress.