Relationship Between Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

-- M Sheik Mohamed and H Anisa

In the face of present global economic realism, organizations are compelled to change continuously. Organizations require employees who are prepared to work beyond their job descriptions. These employees often exert behaviors that go beyond their prescribed job obligations that improve the overall performance of the organization. These are the employees on whom the organization ought to focus retention efforts in order to ensure and sustain successful functioning of the workplace. The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of organizational commitment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) in a telecommunication organization. The results of PLS path analysis revealed that normative commitment and continuance commitment have a significant impact on OCB, whereas affective commitment has no significant impact on OCB.

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Commitment of Information Technology Employees in Relation to Perceived Organizational Justice

-- Harold Andrew Patrick

Organizational justice has been researched as an antecedent of the organizational commitment and is important because it has been linked to critical organizational processes such as commitment, citizenship, job satisfaction and performance. In the technology organization context, commitment of employees has a strategic value. A sample consisting of 225 IT employees were surveyed for the present study. The judgmental sampling technique was adopted. Perceptions of organizational justice and commitment were measured adopting standardized, reliable and valid scales. The major findings were that IT employees were treated with only moderate fairness/justice by the organizations, however, their commitment to their organization was fairly high. It was found that organizational justice significantly influenced organizational commitment of IT employees. The results of this study provide considerable insight into the IT employees’ perceptions of fairness that promote commitment. The implications of the study focus on strategies for increasing organizational justice and are discussed in detail.

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Role Stress Among Banking Sector Employees: A Logit Approach

--Suparn Sharma, Jyoti Sharma and Arti Devi

The experience of role stress has been found to be moderated by various factors due to which some people are better able to handle role stress and others are not. Out of these various factors, the individual differences in personality, demography and subsequent work performance account for much variation in the experience of role stress. The present study makes an attempt to examine those individual factors which account for role stress among employees of banking sector. To achieve the above-mentioned objective, a sample of 80 employees working in banks of Jammu region (India) was surveyed. The underlying factors impacting role stress of the employees have been explored with the help of logit regression analysis. The study reveals that age, education, salary, locus of control, rewards, appreciation, promotion, working spouse are significant factors that influence role stress experienced by the respondents. It also exhibits that stressed employees are more willing to avail Voluntary Retirement Scheme, if given a chance. Based on the findings, the study recommends a ‘positive reinforcement approach’ to the management and regulation of the level of role stress among employees at the workplace with active cooperation from employees.

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Wisdom and Leadership: A Conceptual Study on the Link Between the Two Literatures

--Tumpa Dey

This paper addresses the link between wisdom and leadership literature previously unaddressed by studies linking wisdom and leadership. Specifically, it seeks to find a relationship between wisdom and transformational leadership literature and also takes into account both the eastern and western concepts of wisdom in its explicit and implicit form. In the initial section, a literature review of transformational leadership and wisdom leadership has been taken up, and in the later section, a link between the two literatures have been proposed. Limitations of the study and directions for future research have also been addressed.

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