Nurses' Job Involvement and Its Relation to their Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
Much more attention has been paid to nurses' attitudinal and behavioral issues such as job involvement, and organizational citizenship .Nurses, as citizens of a country, display positive or favorable behaviors have a positive impact on society, like wise in health organizations, they benefits the organization as a whole. The study aimed to: examine the relationship between job involvement and the five dimensions of organizational citizenship behaviors (altruism, courtesy, sportsmanship, conscientiousness, and civil virtue). Instruments: two instruments used in data collection. Instrument I: Job Involvement Questionnaire which consisted of two parts: Part 1: contains socio-demographic characteristics. Part 2: included 18 statements to assess the nurses’ level of Job involvement. Answers were given on a staff responded to using a three-level Likert scale: 1-disagree, 2-neither disagree nor agree (neutral) and 3- agree. Instrument 2: organizational citizenship behavior scale to assess nurses' organizational citizenship behavior and included 37 statements. Subjects and Setting: A convenient sample of 93 staff nurses from one private Hospital worked in different settings at Menoufia governorate, Egypt. Results: there was a statistical significant correlation between organizational citizenship and job involvement. Also, the majority of studied nurses had high level of job involvement. Moreover, they had high level of organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusion: the study concluded that there was a statistical significance relationship between organizational citizenship and job involvement. Thus fostering high levels of Job involvement leads to more positive attitudes and behaviors of organizational citizenship. Recommendation: it is recommended that future research in this issue should be conducted by using job involvement and Organizational citizenship behavior data, which is based on supervisory or peers ratings of nurses.
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Sohair M. Mabrouk, Hayam A. El- Shrief
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