Residential camping for building organisational citizenship behaviour: a case on a non-profit organisation from India
by A. Dhiraj; Ashok Kumar; Manoj Joshi
International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management (IJPSPM), Vol. 6, No. 3, 2020

Abstract: This research case elucidates the methodology for building organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) with an exploratory study undertaken in a seven-day training camp conducted by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a non-profit, voluntary organisation in India. The authors explored 18 distinct states of India spread across NEWS and randomly picked up a camp in the southern state. At this camp, the character moulding process was observed. The data was collated through participant observation followed by a series of interviews. It was revealed that, the sportive and intellectual activities for engagement inculcated a subset of 'character merits' focused towards OCB. The implications derived are the impact of specific environment and training, which opens a new dimension to human resource (HR) practices, for building of explicit patterns of OCB. Case writers accept the methodological challenges in interpreting the changes in real-life consequences in the absence of a grounded theory, which may be a limitation.

Online publication date: Wed, 17-Jun-2020

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