Undergraduates’ organizational citizenship behavior and academic dishonesty / Shaiful Annuar Khalid, Norshimah Abdul Rahman and Abdul Rashid Sinthamadar

Academic dishonesty such as cheating and plagiarism are manifestations of the desire to get good grades among students. This problem is becoming one of the important issues at all university campuses. This study looks at the impact of organizational citizenship behavior on students’ academic dishonesty. The data were taken from 217 undergraduate business and accounting students from a public university of Peninsular Malaysia. The findings of this study revealed that academic cheating is not a serious problem among students. Furthermore, OCB dimensions of helping behavior, conscientiousness, sportsmanship and courtesy were significantly and negatively associated with academic dishonesty

Job burnout and work values as antecedents of organizational citizenship behaviours / Shaiful Annuar Khalid et al.

This study is conducted to examine the relationship between dimensions of job burnout, work values and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB). Dimensions of burnout include cynicism, emotional exhaustion and reduced professional efficacy whereas work values consist of intrinsic work values and extrinsic work values. Two forms of OCBs tested are organizational citizenship behaviour directed at individual (OCBI) and organizational citizenship behaviour directed at organization (OCBO). The sample of this study includes 101 employees from several work divisions and levels of a Malaysian Multinational Corporation. It was found that dimensions of work values and burnout are significant factors to consider for enhancing OCBO. Specifically, the finding of this study demonstrates that intrinsic work values, extrinsic work values, emotional exhaustion and reduced professional efficacy are significant predictors of OCBO. However, only reduced professional efficacy significantly related with OCBI, whereas cynicism was not related with both types of OCB

Entrepreneurial intention among Malaysian undergraduates.

Research in entrepreneurship field has magnetized the interest of many researchers as a tool of development for many countries. The study of the factors that leads people to become entrepreneurs has been a question of many researchers. This study explores the relationship between the Big-Five personality factors, contextual factors and entrepreneurial intention. As such, it fits squarely into the literature on the antecedents of entrepreneurship. Previous research has focused on the need for achievement as well as social psychological characteristics such as attitude and self-efficacy. This study looks at the extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, openness, neuroticism, perceived barriers, perceived support and close support which are determinants of entrepreneurial intention. The data was gathered from 123 undergraduate students at one of the university branch campuses in the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. Data collection was based on voluntary basis, informed consent, and anonymity. Regression analyses indicate that entrepreneurial intention is positively correlated with extraversion, openness, and close support. In the final section, we discuss these results and discover a future research agenda

Organizational citizenship behavior as a predictor of student academic achievement

This study employed social exchange theory to examine the connection between one of the elements of teaching strategies, that is, lecturers’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and students’ academic achievement. Student needs for achievement was used as moderator. Analysis was conducted on a survey data of 196 students in one of the local public institutions of higher learning. The results revealed that OCB dimension of altruism and courtesy were significantly related to students’ academic achievement. In addition, conscientiousness positively predicted students’ academic achievement among students with high needs for achievement. These findings indicate that, in order to enhance motivation and learning among students, altruism, courtesy and conscientiousness are some of the important behaviors among lecturers. Interpretations of results, implications and future research are discussed

Gender as a moderator of the relationship between OCB and turnover intention

This paper examines the relationship between OCBs and turnover intention. The sample consisted of 557 non manager employees across 63 hotels in Malaysia. Managers’ ratings of employees’ OCBs were collected and matched with 557 employees’ self ratings of turnover intention and demographic. Factor analysis of OCB items revealed a new dimension of OCB, labeled as patience, together with four common dimensions - helping behavior, conscientiousness, sportsmanship and civic virtue. Consistent with cognitive consistency theory, the results show that helping behavior, conscientiousness, patience and civic virtue were significantly and negatively related to turnover intention. Moreover, the OCB dimensions explained a meaningful portion (25%) of the turnover intention measure. The results indicated that gender moderated the relationship between helping behavior and turnover intention and this relationship was stronger for females than males. These results point to the importance of considering behavioral factors in effort to predict and manage employee turnover