The Relationships Between Positive Psychological Capital, Perceived Organizational Support, and Employee Engagement on the Organizational Citizenship Behaviors of Employees at a Private Company
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In this research article has the objective to study and analyze the relationship between positive psychological capital, perceived organizational support, employee engagement, and the organizational citizenship behaviors of employees at a private company and to create a predictive equation for the organizational citizenship behaviors of employees at a private company. Positive psychological capital, perceived organizational support and employee engagement served as predictor variables. The sample population consisted of 222 employees from twelve work units at a private company. The research tool was a questionnaire and utilizing frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient method, and stepwise multiple regression analysis was also employed by the researcher.
Findings showed that the highest proportion of the employees under study were females between the ages of 25 and 30. The period of employment was less than a year. They exhibited a high level of positive psychological capital; perceived organizational support at a moderate level and employee engagement at a high level; and organizational citizenship behaviors at a high level, positive relationships with the organizational citizenship behaviors of the private company employees at the statistically significant level of .01, and positive psychological capital and employee engagement were jointly found to allow predictions of organizational citizenship behaviors at the statistically significant level of .01. The predictive power for organizational citizenship behaviors was at 23.0 percent.
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