ANTECENDENTS OF ORGANISATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR: A STUDY OF PUBLIC HOSPITAL NURSES

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2007
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MD SALLEH, SALNIZA
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This research aimed at investigating factors which influence organisational citizenship behaviour of nurses that work in public hospitals in the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. More specifically, this research looked at three antecedent factors (transformational leadership, employee emotional intelligence, and role perceptions) that could significantly influence nurses to exhibit organisational citizenship behaviour. A total of 290 questionnaires were distributed to nurses in three public hospitals in Kedah and Perlis. Only 277 questionnaires were returned and used in the analysis. Factor analyses were performed on all measurement scales. As a result, organisational citizenship behaviour produces three components (citizenship behaviour that benefits organisation, citizenship behaviour that benefits internal customers, and citizenship behaviour that benefits external customers), emotional intelligence produces four components (regulation of emotion, self emotion appraisal, others emotion appraisal, and use of emotion), transformational leadership produces three components (intellectual stimulation, inspirational, and individualised consideration) and role perceptions resulted in three components (role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload). The hierarchical multiple regression analyses revealed that only intellectual stimulation of transformational leadership behaviour has a positive and significant influence on all three types of organisational citizenship behaviour of nurses. Furthermore, it was discovered that the ability to understand the emotional state of others (others' emotion appraisal) was significantly and negatively related to organisational citizenship behaviour that benefits internal customers and the organisation but not to organisational citizenship behaviour that benefits .external customers. The ability to understand own emotions (self emotion appraisal) was significantly and negatively related to organisational citizenship behaviour that Xlll benefits external customers but was not significantly related to other types of citizenship behaviour. Finally, the regression analysis showed that out of the three role perceptions (role conflict, role ambiguity, and role overload), only role conflict was significantly and negatively related to organisational citizenship behaviour that benefits internal customers.
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ANTECENDENTS OF ORGANISATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR
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