Does family come first? Family motivation-individual’s OCB assessment via self-efficacy

Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perceptions of faculty members about the influence of family motivation on their self-efficacy and organizational citizenship behavior-individual (OCBI). Design/methodology/approach The proposed model was tested on a sample of 353 faculty members from different public and private universities of Pakistan. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze data. Findings Surprisingly, results reveal that family motivation was not positively related to faculty members’ OCBI; instead, this relationship is fully mediated by self-efficacy. The findings suggest that it is employees’ self-efficacy belief through which their family motivation translates to their increased OCBI. This study also finds that supporting the family is a powerful source of motivation to work, offering meaningful practical and theoretical implications for policy-makers, leaders, managers and researchers on the new dynamics of work and family engagements. Originality/value The study contributes to human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) literatures by providing some useful practical implications for managers and HRM and OB consultants who are interested in understanding the underlying psychological mechanisms (i.e. self-efficacy) through which employees’ family motivation results in the increased OCBI.

Predicting Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Universities’ Contractual Teaching Staff: A Developing Country Perspective

“…Honesty Humility and Agreeableness helps in modifying organizational citizenship behavior as found by Umrani (2019). The evident non distinguishability of the reasonable portrayals of charitable inclinations in Honesty-Humility and HEXACO Agreeableness is additionally shown by the most elevated between relationships between elements present in current study.…”

“…The geographic location for the respondents was selected as Southern Punjab, Pakistan. The main objective behind selecting the education sector was stress, dissatisfaction and a non-organizational citizenship behavior observed in the teaching staff of Southern Punjab (Nawaz, 2020;Umrani, 2019). This behavior has negatively affected the quality of education in this region which needs to be modified for better educational results in future.…”

“…This investigation is done among public and private sector teaching staff. The issue of OCB exists not only in Southern Punjab Pakistan but also in other parts of Pakistan as Umrani (2019) pointed out that the issue of OCB dominating in educational sectors. The sampling design and size is most suitable as per the type of study.…”

“…Besides the great importance of OCB, still, factors influencing OCB are underemphasized and latent in nature. Several studies have concluded that this concept is rare to quote especially in the developing countries like Pakistan (Umrani, 2019). Therefore, it requires to study OCB from developing country's (Pakistan) perspective which attracts researchers in the field to fill the gap.…”

“…In an educational sector, effective working is all about being more responsible, conscious and to have an intent of association within the organization that compiles the view of the management towards educational faculty, striving to provide qualitative knowledge and services (Umrani, 2019). The teaching staff, as an institution, endeavor to be more emotionally reliable and effective to their working responsibility.…”