scholarly journals Workplace Spirituality, Job Satisfaction and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Theoretical Model

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shibani Belwalkar ◽  
Veena Vohra

<p class="Abstract">Workplace spirituality has steadily been gaining attention in the last couple of years. Many researchers have investigated the role of “workplace spirituality” with the aim of generating research data that would firmly entrench this construct as vital in the workplace. This article proposes the relationships between workplace spirituality, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behaviors. It examines the relationship between three workplace spirituality components–meaning and purpose in work, recognition of an inner life or spirit and interconnectedness with the various forms in which organizational citizenship behaviours manifest, mediated by the job satisfaction experienced by the employees. This study can provide significant inputs to promote managerial effectiveness, change management, leadership, holistic performance and growth of organizations, through environments which promote workplace spirituality.</p>

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 226-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia-Tzu Lin ◽  
Ching-Sheng Chang

Because nurses deliver care to patients on behalf of hospitals, hospitals should enhance the spontaneous organizational citizenship behaviors of front-line nurses to increase patient satisfaction and, hence, to increase the competitiveness of the hospital. However, a major gap in the literature is the lack of evidence-based studies of the correlations among job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors in nursing personnel. Therefore, this study performed a cross-sectional survey of nurses in 1 large hospital in Taiwan; out of 400 questionnaires distributed, 386 valid questionnaires were collected, which was a valid response rate of 96.50%. The survey results revealed that organizational commitment has a significant positive effect on organizational citizenship behaviors (γ11 = 0.57, p < .01) and that job satisfaction has a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors (Δχ2 = 26.397, p < .01). Therefore, hospitals can improve the job satisfaction of their nursing staff by improving perceived working satisfaction, interpersonal satisfaction, and remunerative satisfaction, which would then improve organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors.


2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 805-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Ayim Gyekye ◽  
Simo Salminen

This study examined the relationship between safety climate and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). It involved a comparative analysis between workers active in citizenship behaviors and their colleagues who were passive or inactive regarding OCBs. Additional analyses also compared job satisfaction, compliance with safe work policies, and accident frequency between the two groups. T-tests were used in these comparative analyses. A positive association was found between safety perception and OCBs: workers who actively engaged in citizenship behaviors had positive perceptions of safety in their workplaces, and vice versa. Additionally, the group active in OCBs expressed more job satisfaction, were more compliant with safety management policies, and subsequently had a relatively lower accident involvement rate. The implications of these findings in the work environment are discussed.


2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Riffatun Nisa Awan ◽  
Ghazanfar Ali ◽  
Sobia Anjum

This study intends to search the structural relations among organizationaljustice, job satisfaction, supervisor support, organizational commitment,and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) of a sample of 500secondary school teachers (SSTs) of district Sargodha using a surveyresearch design. The analyses revealed that all demographic variableshad insignificant effects on most of the organizational citizenshipbehaviors of SSTs while only gender had significant effects as amoderator variable. Regression analysis revealed affective commitmentand operational justice were significantly correlated to all dimensions ofcitizenship behaviors, whereas only sportsmanship behavior of teacherswas related to normative commitment and interactional justice. Teachers’compliance behavior and civic virtue were correlated with continuancecommitment. Gender turned out to be a significant moderator betweenthe relationships of the pairs of variables such as; continuancecommitment and civic virtue, affective commitment and compliance,interactional justice and helping, operational justice and civic virtue, jobsatisfaction and sportsmanship, continuance commitment andsportsmanship.


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