Abstract Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has received considerable attention in recent years. It has been studied as behavioral outcome of employees’ motivation in organizations. However, the present study sought to discern the relationship between employees’ perception of empowerment with OCB as voluntary acts beyond the role specification in 75 employees of sport and youth organization of khorasan Razavi province. Data was collected through organizational citizenship behavior and employees’ perception of empowerment questionnaires. Both scales were adapted into farsi. statistical analysis of the study reveald that mean scores of employees’ perception of empowerment and OCB were low. There was a significant relationship between employees’ perception of empowerment and its subscales with OCB (p < 0/05) , a stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that meaningfullness and competence were the strongest predictors of OCB.

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