Abstract
People have certain feelings of pride to their occupation, which is called "Nobless Oblige," i.e., subjective occupational prestige (SOP). On our assumption, keeping heightened SOP, organizational violations can be reduced. In this study, we focused on SOP of fire-fighters, one of occupations which has been reported few organizational violations. In study 1, we carried paper-interview, and inferred from results that having relationship with general citizen would affect the heightened SOP (n = 73). In study 2, we explored the psychological structure of the fire-fighters' SOP. The results showed that the structure of fire-fighters' SOP was different from other general workers', and heightened SOP was related to organizational Pro-social behavior (n = 187). "Nobless Oblige" as one of background factors of generating violations can be utilized to prevent organizational violations.
