TITLE:
Development and Validation of Organizational Citizenship Behaviours Scale (OCBS) for the Nigerian Context
AUTHORS:
Elizabeth I. Olowookere, Grace A. Adejuwon
KEYWORDS:
Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, Organizational Involvement, Dutifulness, Interpersonal Relationship, Nigeria
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.6 No.5,
April
8,
2015
ABSTRACT: This study examined key dimensions of organizational citizenship
behaviours in the Nigerian context and validated appropriate measure of the construct
in Nigeria. One hundred (100) employees comprising of forty seven (47) males
and fifty three (53) females from public and private organizations in Lagos
State participated in this study. Consequent upon the cultural sensitivity of
organizational citizenship behaviour dimensions, Organizational Citizenship
Behaviours Scale (OCBS) was validated as a suitable measure of OCB in the
Nigerian context. Factor analysis was used to identify the specific dimensions
of the OCBS to include: Organizational Involvement (OI), Dutifulness (D) and Interpersonal
Relationship (IR), consisting nine (9), nine (9) and twelve (12) items
respectively. The KMO measure of sampling adequacy showed a value of .59. This
value simply shows that the sample of 100 participants was adequate to conduct
factor analysis on the OCBS. The Bartlett’s test of Sphericity showed a
significant value (x2(1830) = 3578.981,p. The 30 item OCBS scale has a Cronbach alpha of .86,
the Dutifulness sub-scale .74, the Interpersonal Relationship .75 and the
Organizational involvement .88. The convergent validity between OCBS and the
Intrinsic Religiosity dimension of the Religious Orientation Scale developed byAllport and Ross (1967)was found to be
significant at .01. This paper concluded and recommended that the dimension of
generalized compliance is vital to the measure of organizational citizenship
behaviours in the Nigerian context and should not be underplayed.