Evaluation of the Components of Psychological Capital and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Nigerian Graduate Employees

  • John K Aderibigbe Department of Industrial Psychology, University of Fort Hare
  • Themba Q Mjoli Department of Industrial Psychology, University of Fort Hare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v10i5(J).2496
Keywords: Graduate, employee, organizational citizenship behavior, psychological capital

Abstract

In consideration of implications of organizational citizenship behavior, it is quite necessary for scholars and human resource management practitioners, to urgently investigate the correlates of psychological capital dimensions and the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior. The purpose of the study was twofold. Firstly, to examines the relationship between psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior. Secondly, to investigate the relationships between the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior and psychological capital. The study is important, because its outcomes would help the corporate world, governments and human resource managers to avert the problem of underperformance among employees by improving psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior. The study adopted the positivist explanatory cross-sectional (survey) research design to systematically sample opinions of 1,532 male and female graduate employees across the various sectors of the Nigerian economy, using a structured and validated questionnaire, and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The results of the statistical analysis of data showed that there was a significant positive relationship between psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior, r = 0.588, p<0.01. The results also showed that altruism, conscientiousness and civic virtue dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior are significantly positively interrelated to hope, optimism, resilience and self-efficacy dimensions of psychological capital. The study suggested that human resource managers should develop psychological capital in employees in order to increase the level of organizational performance. Recommendations of the study could assist in training and developing effective manpower capacity towards improving the economy of the nation. 

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2018-11-03
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Aderibigbe, J. K., & Mjoli, T. Q. (2018). Evaluation of the Components of Psychological Capital and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Nigerian Graduate Employees. Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 10(5(J), 38-50. https://doi.org/10.22610/jebs.v10i5(J).2496
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Vol 10 No 5(J) (2018)
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