Investigating the effect of organizational citizenship behavior on social loafing (Case study: Road and city planning organization in Karaj)

This research performed to investigation of organizational citizen behavior effect on social loafing in organization of road and city planning in Karaj. The organizational citizen behavior concept has 5 dimensions consist of: royalty, affection, magnanimity, altruism and virtue that evaluated by questionnaire. The questionnaires of this research distributed between 139 persons of statistical universe to all staff of General Office of road and planning in Karaj. Structural equations model and analyzing of Partial Least Square (PLS) methods were used to examine the hypotheses. The results indicated that among all organizational citizen behavior dimensions, four dimensions have negative and meaningful effect on social loafing.. The results of the research also indicated that among all organizational citizen behavior dimensions, altruism dimension has most effect on decrease social loafing.