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The aim of this study is to determine the effects of ethical climate on organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). This research was conducted on the 200 workers that working in various factories within the Kadirli Organized Indisturial Zone. In data collection tool, ethical climate scale of Schwepker (2001) and organizational citizenship behaviour scale of Podsakoff (1990) were used. With a five point Likert scale according to the structured questionnaire were included to the research and collected data were analyzed via SPSS.18 statistical analytical software. According to the results of the analysis, ethical climate has significant and positive relationship between sportsmanship, civic virtue and courtesy but, it has not significant relationship between altruism and conscientiousness which are dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviour.

Personality is a concept which is being discussed for years. With this concept, questions like "Why are people so different from each other?", "Why do each people respond differently against same situation?" have been trying to answered. Each feature that belong and define a person, is a guide to understand and define that person. In this context, personality is a term that contains a person's attitude, gifts, style, exterior look and adaptation to environment. Personality is a distinctive and harmonious whole. However, there may be conditions that disrupts this harmony. Today's world's fast changes and developments are causing irresistable changes in people's personalities. While changing social structure is bringing innovations and convenience in many areas, at the same time it is pushing people into a fight for survival. During this fight people may encounter with stressful situations. Reactions against these stressful situations varies from person to person. The purpose of this study is to determine people's personality characteristics, differences and their overcome strategies against stressful situations that they encounter. In this study, how people's personality charactheristics are affecting their overcome strategies against stressful situations has been discussed. The research sample consists of 400 students of Mersin Toros University Vocational High School. "Coping Strategies Inventory" (developed by Folkman and Lazarus and translated to Turkish by Şahin and Durak) and "The Big Five Inentory" (developed by John, Donahue and Kentle) have been used as measurement tools.

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