RT - Journal Article T1 - Relationship between Ethical Philosophy and Employees’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior JF - ethicsjournal YR - 2017 JO - ethicsjournal VO - 12 IS - 2 UR - http://ethicsjournal.ir/article-1-621-en.html SP - 149 EP - 154 K1 - Ethical Philosophy K1 - Organizational Citizenship Behavior K1 - Utilitarianism K1 - Egoism AB - Background: Evidences show that people, who work in an organization, emerge different job and task behavior; one of them performing organization task, and the other are behaviors such as helping colleagues and etc. The researchers examined the impact of ethical philosophies on extra role. Method: The research is applied in terms of objective, and its methodology is descriptive- correlation. In which the 370 people of Gas Company in Guilan province between 1253, were studied by using randomized simple sampling and standard questionnaire. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation test. Results: Results show that the dimensions of ethical philosophies have significant relationship with organizational citizenship behavior and intensity of the relationship between utilitarianism and egoism with organizational citizenship behavior are more than other dimensions. Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be said that increase in the level of ethical values in the organization, lead to a greater level of organizational citizenship behavior of staffs. LA eng UL http://ethicsjournal.ir/article-1-621-en.html M3 ER -