Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?

Healthcare services in Malaysia have evolved over the past century to become among the best in the world, although with strenuous working conditions to the healthcare personnel. This situation, however, provides an interesting avenue to understand whether nurses in the public sector exhibit organiza...

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Main Author: Noraini Othman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UUM Press 2006-12-01
Series:International Journal of Management Studies
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Online Access:https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/ijms/article/view/9248
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description Healthcare services in Malaysia have evolved over the past century to become among the best in the world, although with strenuous working conditions to the healthcare personnel. This situation, however, provides an interesting avenue to understand whether nurses in the public sector exhibit organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB) amid the working environment that hampers such behaviours. This study explores the OCB practices amongst public healthcare nurses in Malaysia. In general, this study has found that nurses do display OCB in their daily 7uorkpractices. Results from the 727 respondents indicated that there were no significant relationships between demographic variables and OCB, consistent with earlier studies in this field. The study also found that there were significant relationships between job satisfaction and OCB, and between organisational commitment and OCB. These results indicated that job satisfaction and organisational commitment contributed significantly to the prediction of OCB. Further investigation into each dimension of OCB has found that altruism or helping behaviour had the lowest score and this suggested a contradictory description of job and gender.  
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spelling doaj.art-01bac34b8f0447bf8d5888864948a1132023-01-26T03:14:39ZengUUM PressInternational Journal of Management Studies2232-16082180-24672006-12-01132Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?Noraini Othman0Faculty of Business Management Universiti Utara MalaysiaHealthcare services in Malaysia have evolved over the past century to become among the best in the world, although with strenuous working conditions to the healthcare personnel. This situation, however, provides an interesting avenue to understand whether nurses in the public sector exhibit organizational citizenship behaviours (OCB) amid the working environment that hampers such behaviours. This study explores the OCB practices amongst public healthcare nurses in Malaysia. In general, this study has found that nurses do display OCB in their daily 7uorkpractices. Results from the 727 respondents indicated that there were no significant relationships between demographic variables and OCB, consistent with earlier studies in this field. The study also found that there were significant relationships between job satisfaction and OCB, and between organisational commitment and OCB. These results indicated that job satisfaction and organisational commitment contributed significantly to the prediction of OCB. Further investigation into each dimension of OCB has found that altruism or helping behaviour had the lowest score and this suggested a contradictory description of job and gender.   https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/ijms/article/view/9248Organisational citizenship behaviours (OCB)organizational commitmentjob satisfactionnurses
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Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?
International Journal of Management Studies
Organisational citizenship behaviours (OCB)
organizational commitment
job satisfaction
nurses
title Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?
title_full Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?
title_fullStr Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?
title_full_unstemmed Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?
title_short Do Healthcare Personnel Promote Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?
title_sort do healthcare personnel promote organisational citizenship behaviours
topic Organisational citizenship behaviours (OCB)
organizational commitment
job satisfaction
nurses
url https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/ijms/article/view/9248
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