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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) and organizational commitment of public sector school teachers in Anuradhapura District. OCB considered as the independent variable and the organizational commitment considered as the dependent variable. The researcher selected 100 teachers in Anuradhapura district as the sample of this study by using simple random sampling method and used structured questionnaire to collect data. Respondents were asked to indicate their agreement or disagreement on Five Point Likert as the scaling method. Data analysis was performed by using descriptive statistics, ANOVA, correlation and regression analysis by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 21.0 version. According to the data analysis results, there was a significant and positive relationship between OCB and organizational commitment with an adjusted R square value of 0.73. The recommendations may helpful to future increase of OCB and organizational commitment in the education field and to policy makers to plan the future objectives, policies and guidelines

Keywords

Organizational Citizenship Behaviour; Organizational Commitment; Education; Teacher

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