The study explored the relationship between pyshcological contracts and discretionary beahviour in nigerian academics. the study adopted a survey design and multi-stage cluster sampling to select a proportional sample size of academics in each of the universities, giving a total of 392 an equivalent of 5% of the population. the study found that the higher the proportion of perceived of BPc, the higher the tendency of DWB and the lower the OcB among academics in nigeria. similarly, the experienced BPC by 0.290 and 0.157, the quality of research would have lower and upper bound of 0.171 and 0.360 and the quality of research will have the lower and upper bound of 0.043 and 0.225 respectively. This implies that the PC had influenced academics in different ways showing a tendency for OcB and DWB. Unfortunately, the tendency for DWB outweighed that of OcB. Academics who uphold OcB despite the perceived BPc should be encouraged to sustain their good behavior.
Due to an outrageous involvement in unethical behavior in industrial organizations, many organizations have started to realize that management must work to fulfil their moral obligations to society in which they operate. The study examines the influence of psychological ownership on the ethical behavior of academic staff in public universities. Extant literature was reviewed from the current development of the construct variables. The survey research method was employed; the population consists of all academic staff working in selected federal universities in Nigeria. Both primary and secondary data were employed. Upon completion of data collection, a combination of both descriptive and inferential statistics was employed as methods of data analysis, the model of this study was tested using the hierarchical regression and correlation analysis. The study found that the correlation coefficients of all dimensions of psychological ownership such as employee' self-efficacy (R2=0.668) and employee's sense of belonging (-0.821) were weak-positive related to individual and benevolent ethical behavior. This implies all dimensions have inverse relationship with individual and benevolent ethical behavior and that the increase in each of the dimension of psychological ownership (such as employee's self-efficacy, employee sense of belonging) which decrease the individual and benevolent ethical behavior while the decrease in psychological ownership dimensions will increase individual and benevolent ethical behavior at 5% level of significant. The study concludes that employees having a sense of ownership with the organization are less likely to deviate from work norms and values. The study, therefore, recommends that in order to minimize unethical behavior within the workplace, the university system must adapt to a specific ethical standard that is centered on extremely important ethical core values in order to resolve the problems associated with negative workplace unethical behaviors.
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