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Is It Ok to Say “That’s Not My Job”?

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Most of us agree that in a healthy work relationship an employee generally will do the “little extras” that help an organization. That’s because in a healthy work relationship, this extra effort will be usually be reciprocated. In fact this concept of doing the “little extras” is heavily researched in OB and is called organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). However, we can’t let OCBs become the main component of the job.

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© 2011 Joan Marques, Satinder Dhiman, and Jerry Biberman

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Stark, G. (2011). Is It Ok to Say “That’s Not My Job”?. In: Marques, J., Dhiman, S., Biberman, J. (eds) Stories to Tell Your Students. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230370432_33

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