Abstract
The purpose of this research was to clarify how Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) of male nurses was related to working in a small minority job in Japanese hospitals. The data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 8 male nurses that worked athospitals in Japan. All participants showed OCB in their work place. The author focused onspecific actions of OCB and classified data into the following 9 categories.(1) Plan and holda seminars for other nurses.(2) Carry heavy things or carry patients.(3) Coach junior fellows.(4) Maintain medical equipment.(5) Play a buffer role between staff members.(6) Preparereports and manuals for using personal computers.(7) Keeping the work place clean (8) Holding roles other than those related to nursing.(9) Expressed opinions and incidentsrelated to being a male other than those above.Four items: 2, 4, 5, 8 were representative ofthe male role. The other categories however, indicated that male nurses behaved and workedjust as a nurse, no different to female nurses.
