2019 年 39 巻 1 号 p. 68-79
Helping is one of the most typical activities in Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). This paperaims to examine how helping in external group activities that individuals participate for their own peace of mind and abilities improvement influence the helping behavior in their own organization. The data was collected from 381workers who were participating in the external groups. Path analysis empirically found significant causal relation paths among (1) goal achievement in the external group, (2) helping in the external group, (3) OCB in the organization, (4) job satisfaction in the organization, and (5) job stress in the organization.