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Organizational Citizenship Behaviors among Teaching Staff at Nursing Faculties in Upper Egypt

Research Authors
Samah Mohamed Abdalla, Fatma Rushdy Mohamed, and Sanaa Mohamed Araf
Research Journal
Journal of American Science
Research Member
Research Publisher
NULL
Research Rank
1
Research Vol
Vol.9, No.7
Research Website
http://www.jofamericanscience.org
Research Year
2013
Research_Pages
NULL
Research Abstract

An organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a term that encompasses anything positive and
constructive that employees do, of their own volition, which supports co-workers and benefits the organization. Aim
of the study: was to assess organizational citizenship behaviors factors as perceived by nursing faculties' members in
Upper Egypt. A descriptive research design was utilized in the present study. The total number of faculty members
were (n=233). Organizational citizenship behaviors questionnaire consisted of two parts: 1st part included six
questions related to personal data of nursing faculty members include: (name of the university, age, sex, marital
status, educational qualifications, and years of experience). 2nd part of the questionnaire included thirty nine items
covers five factors of organizational citizenship behaviors: training and development, work – life policies,
empowerment practices, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors. The possible
responses of this part were: 3 for disagree, 2 for uncertain and 1 for agree. Results: denoted that almost all
demonstrators and assistant lecturers disagreed on factors of training and development, work-life policies, and
empowerment practices while were agreed with organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behaviors
factors. There were statistically significant differences for all factors of organizational citizenship behaviors, while
almost all members with doctoral degree at nursing faculties in Upper Egypt Universities agreed on all factors of
organizational citizenship behaviors except work-life policies with statistically significant differences for all factors.
Conclusions: Both married and unmarried were agreed with all organizational citizenship behaviors factors except
with training and development & work-life polices factors. And there were statistically significant differences among
marital status and organizational citizenship behaviors (P<0.001, 0.006, 0.000, and 0.006) respectively except
empowerment practices was (P<0.87). All faculties' members with different educational qualifications and years of
experiences were disagreed on training and development, work-life policies factors with highly statistical significant
differences. .Recommendations: In the light of the findings, the researchers recommended that Up grading
competencies of nursing faculties teachers through attendance of staff development programs will increase their
OCB, Provide power to the nursing faculties' teaching staff with different educational qualifications to share in
decision making can lead to improve teachers' leadership skills, improve work-life quality, and improve
professionalism.