OCBs are behaviors that go beyond what is expected, and CWBs are behaviors that work against the well-being of the company, the worker, or both. Why these dimensions are interesting and important to I/O psychologists is easily seen with an understanding of the higher and lower potential of behavior that you, as an I/O psychologist, can design a plan to help fix or support your agency. This ideal can limit or enhance some of the causes of these OCB/CWB behaviors and their impact on the workplace, for example for CWB it is possible to limit theft for personal gain and for OCB it is possible to increase altruism throughout the workplace work thus offering a common good/objective. The importance of adaptive and proactive behavior in OCB/CWB is that simple adaptive behavior helps rapidly changing workplaces avoid failure because of the flexibility of this behavior. Now proactive behavior has the characteristics of foresight, and in a highly structured company, low-risk, well-planned behavior is