Open AccessOrganizational Citizenship Behaviour and the Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment: A Study of Private Universities
Author(s) -
Sofiah Kadar Khan,
Mumtaz Ali Memon,
Alex Cheing,
Hiram Ting
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of business and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.236
H-Index - 15
ISSN - 1511-6670
DOI - 10.33736/ijbs.3160.2021
Subject(s) - organizational citizenship behavior , organizational commitment , transformational leadership , organizational behavior and human resources , organizational justice , organizational learning , structural equation modeling , latent variable , psychology , organizational engineering , organizational culture , organizational effectiveness , organization development , social psychology , organizational studies , partial least squares regression , public relations , political science , management , economics , mathematics , statistics
This study aims to perpetuate the investigation of organizational commitment and its mediating role as it is one of the most crucial components in understanding organizational behaviour. A total of 324 samples were collected from the academics of 20 private universities in Malaysia. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) using SmartPLS3.0 was used to perform the latent variable analysis. The results indicate transformational leadership, organizational culture, and organizational justice are the significant predictors of organizational commitment, and organizational commitment, in turn, is found to be a strong predictor of organizational citizenship behaviour. Moreover, the results of mediating analysis highlight that organizational commitment significantly mediates the hypothesized relationship. The implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations for future research are proposed.