OCBS for extra credit

How to Get Your Extra Credit

  • Document your OCB's completed for your Organizational Leadership course. (Those for which you already received credit should not be submitted to another class, e.g., no double dipping.) Turn in your documentation to the OCB Documentation Dropbox in your Org Leadership course.
  • Points Possible: This depends on the instructor and the course. Refer to the Syllabus and the Assignments, Grading & OCBs page of your OL course for details. Any questions should be directed to your course instructor.

OCB Ideas

Here are a few ideas of things you could do that would count as OCB's for your class. If you need more ideas be sure to review Spector's OCB Checklist - it's linked in the 'What is an OCB?' section of this page.

  • Creating a version of Spector's checklist which focuses on how a class is an organization and gives examples of future course OCB's for other students to use
  • Creating a digital calendar file for the class that other students can use.
  • Organizing and leading a Reading Group to lower the individual burdens on all students involved
  • Organizing and leading a Writing Group to help everyone get extra credit on your papers
  • Proofreading the course web site and providing feedback to the Instructor

Why OCB's?

In classes one of the things we see a lot as a professors is that many of you develop a relationship with the professor, but not so much one with each other. That's such a lost opportunity, especially when we're studying leadership, which by it's very nature requires people to act as a group or team. So that's why this is the method to gain extra credit in this class - We want to encourage making our classes more of a learning community, a bit more like we would be in the workplace (when we are all pursuing parallel purposes in a shared space), etc. Anything you can come up with which seems to work as an OCB you can turn in for points.

What is an OCB?

  • Definitions from the Work and Family Researchers Network
  • Short Video Intro. & Summary Excerpt from Study.com
  • You can review an extensive Organizational Citizenship Behavior Checklist used by top researchers in this area to measure these behaviors in the workplace at Dr. Paul E. Spector’s website. While you don’t need to read the entire rationale/science-y scale part, unless you love organizational research like I do, the checklist items themselves will help you figure out what could be considered an OCB for our class.