Inner Life, Meaningful Work, Conditions for Community, and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
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Conditions for community, inner life, meaningful work, organizational citizenship behaviorAbstract
This paper investigated the relationship that exists among inner life, meaningful work, conditions for community, and organisational citizenship behaviour amongst Nigerian academics. The study embraced a quantitative approach using survey research design, which is ex post facto in nature with the engagement of quantitative and correlational methods. Thus, a convenience sampling technique was utilised to administer 328 questionnaires amongst the academics of two Nigerian public universities. Three hypotheses were stated and tested using inferential statistics tools via the IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 and the Analysis of Moment Structure (AMOS) version 22. The multivariate statistical processes used in this paper are confirmatory factor analyses, structural equation modelling, as well as model fit indices. The results indicated an insignificant positive relationship between inner life and organisational citizenship behaviour. However, it was evident that a strong positive relationship existed between conditions for community and organisational citizenship behaviour. In contrast, the study revealed that there was no significant relationship between meaningful work and organisational citizenship behaviour. Therefore, this paper concludes that the management of universities should always communicate the mutual benefit of engaging in organisational citizenship behaviour to the members of their staff through effective conditions for community, such as aiding of staff personal growth and fair evaluation of work.References
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Ashmos, D. P., & Duchon, D. (2000). Spirituality at Work: A Conceptualization and Measure. Journal of Management Inquiry, 9(2), 134-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/105649260092008
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Awang, Z. (2015). SEM Made Simple: A Gentle Approach to Learning Structural Equation Modeling. Selangor: MPWS Rich Publications.
Azeez, R.O., Jayeoba, F. I. & Adeoye, A.O. (2016). Job Satisfaction, Turnover Intention and Organizational Commitment. BVIMSR Journal of Management Research, 8(2), 104-112.
Byrne, B. M. (2013). Structural Equation Modelling with AMOS: Basic Concepts, Applications, and Programming. Routledge.
Cetin, S., Gürbüz, S., & Sert, M. (2015). A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Test of Potential Moderator Variables. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 27(4), 281-303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-015-9266-5
Charoensukmongkol, P., Daniel, J. L., & Chatelain-Jardon, R. (2015). The Contribution of Workplace Spirituality on Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Advances in Business Research, 6(1), 32-45.
Chovwen, C., & Ogunsakin, A. (2013). Determinants of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour among Employees of Public and Private Organizations. African Research Review, 7(2), 161-174.
Genty, K. I. (2015) Relationship between Demographic Factors, and Entrepreneurial Training on Entrepreneurs’ Success in Nigeria. UPM-SAGE publications, 64-91.
Gupta, M., Kumar, V., & Singh, M. (2014). Creating Satisfied Employees through Workplace Spirituality: A Study of the Private Insurance Sector in Punjab (India). Journal of Business Ethics, 122(1), 79-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1756-5
Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., Anderson, R. E., & Tatham, R. L. (2010). Multivariate Data Analysis (7th Eds.). NY: Pearson.
Hooper, D., Coughlan, J., Mullen, M. (2008) Structural Equation Modelling: Guidelines for Determining Model Fit. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 6(1), 53-60.
Hu, L. T., & Bentler, P. M. (1999). Cutoff Criteria for Fit Indexes in Covariance Structure Analysis: Conventional Criteria Versus New Alternatives. Structural Equation Modeling: a Multidisciplinary Journal, 6(1), 1-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705519909540118
Kazemipour, F., & Mohd Amin, S. (2012). The Impact of Workplace Spirituality Dimensions on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour among Nurses with the Mediating Effect of Affective Organisational Commitment. Journal of Nursing Management, 20(8), 1039-1048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12025
Khatri, P., & Gupta, P. (2016). A Study of Relationship of Perceived Organizational Politics and Spirituality at Workplace in IT and ITES Organizations. Global Journal of Enterprise Information System, 8(2), 1-8.
Krishnakumar, S., & Neck, C. P. (2002). The “What”, “Why” and “How” of Spirituality in the Workplace. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 17(3), 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/02683940210423060
Li, N., Liang, J. & Crant, J. M. (2010). The Role of Proactive Personality in Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: A Relational Perspective. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(2), 395-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018079
Manion, J., & Bartholomew, K. (2004). Community in the Workplace: a Proven Retention Strategy. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34(1), 46-53.
Moorman, R. H., & Harland, L. K. (2002). Temporary Employees as Good Citizens: Factors Influencing their OCB Performance. Journal of Business and Psychology, 17(2), 171-187. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019629330766
Krejcie, R. V., & Morgan, D. W. (1970). Table for Determining Sample Size From a Given Population. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 30(3), 607-610. https://doi.org/10.1177/001316447003000308
Onyishi, I. E. (2010). The Impact of Contingent Employment on Organizational Citizenship Behaviour. Ife Psychologia, 18(2), 303-323.
Organ, D. W. (1988). Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Good Soldier Syndrome. Washington DC: Lexington Books.
Organ, D. W. (1997). Organizational Citizenship Behavior: it's Construct Clean-Up Time. Human Performance, 10(2), 85-97. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327043hup1002_2
Pierce, J. L., Kostova, T., & Dirks, K. T. (2003). The State of Psychological Ownership: Integrating and Extending a Century of Research. Review of General Psychology, 7(1), 84-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.7.1.84
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Podsakoff, P. M., MacKenzie, S. B., Moorman, R. H., & Fetter, R. (1990). Transformational Leader Behaviors and their Effects on Followers' Trust in Leader, Satisfaction, and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors. The Leadership Quarterly, 1(2), 107-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/1048-9843(90)90009-7
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Pyman, A., Holland, P., Teicher, J., & Cooper, B. K. (2010). Industrial Relations Climate, Employee Voice and Managerial Attitudes to Unions: an Australian Study. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 48(2), 460-480. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.00772.x
Schreiber, J. B., Nora, A., Stage, F. K., Barlow, E. A., & King, J. (2006). Reporting Structural Equation Modeling and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Results: a Review. The Journal of Educational Research, 99(6), 323-338. https://doi.org/10.3200/JOER.99.6.323-338.
Schwartz, S. H., & Bilsky, W. (1990). Toward a Theory of the Universal Content and Structure of Values: Extensions and Cross-Cultural Replications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 58(5), 878-891.
Shamir, B. (1991). Meaning, Self and Motivation in Organizations. Organization Studies, 12(3), 405-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/017084069101200304
Stariņeca, O. (2016). Human Resource Selection Approaches and Socially Responsible Strategy. Economics and Business, 28(1), 106-114.
Suleiman, E. S., Ismail, W. K. W., Nor, K. M., & Long, C. S. (2012). Workplace Spirituality and Normative Commitment. In 2nd International Conference on Management, Langkawi Kedah, Malaysia.
Vaill, P. (1998). Spirited Leading and Learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Van Dyne, L., & Pierce, J. L. (2004). Psychological Ownership and Feelings of Possession: Three field Studies Predicting Employee Attitudes and Organizational Citizenship Behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25(4), 439-459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/job.249
Weinstein, N., & Ryan, R. M. (2010). When Helping Helps: Autonomous Motivation for Prosocial Behavior and its Influence on Well-Being for the Helper and Recipient. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98(2), 222-244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016984
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Azeez, R. O., & Genty, K. I. (2018). Inner Life, Meaningful Work, Conditions for Community, and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour. Economics and Business, 32, 136-148. https://doi.org/10.1515/eb-2018-0011
