Abstract

The research seeks to identify the contributions made by student activities to the development of organizational citizenship behavior for students of King Khalid University. The study sample consisted of (107) of regular students who are regular in student activities. They were chosen at random. To achieve the goal of the research, the descriptive analytical method was used through the use of a questionnaire consisting of (30) items distributed on three axes (altruism- a sense of citizenship- sportsmanship). The results of the study revealed that the contributions of student activities in enhancing organizational citizenship behavior were high, with an arithmetic mean of (4.202) and a standard deviation of (0.611). It also had an effective role in enhancing the intellectual security of the study sample as its arithmetic mean was (4.501) and with a standard deviation of (0.496). The study also revealed that student activities have an effective and tangible role in enhancing the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior (altruism - a sense of citizenship - sportsmanship), where it had an arithmetic mean of (4.428) and a standard deviation of (0.492), The study recommended the necessity of providing moral and material support to students who excel in voluntary activities. The necessity of publishing the Student Activity Manual is to show the importance of student activity, and to intensify training programs that enhance the citizenship behavior of university students as a whole.