Abstract
This study investigates linear and non-linear associations among work tenure, organizational tenure, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB), and between leader–member exchange (LMX) and OCBs. A deductive approach was employed to collect data from academics. Using a convenience sample of 364 lecturers from six technical universities in Ghana, stepwise OLS regression analysis suggests that LMX correlates positively with OCBs. The relationship between work tenure and OCB was positive, with longer-tenured employees engaging in more OCBs. The effect of organizational tenure was, however, non-significant. Findings from this study have both theoretical and practical implications. Theoretically, this study adds to the literature on OCBs and LMX, and further enhances the understanding of how tenure in an organization can foster employee productivity. Practicaly, human resource practitioners and managers of higher education institutions can benefit from the findings of this study due to the implicit effects of both work and organizational tenure on workers’ attitudes, behaviors, and performance. This is a novel and pioneering study in an understudied context that examines work tenure, organizational tenure, LMX, and OCB in six public technical universities.
Highlights
Organizational and work tenure have important implications for work-related behaviors and performance [1,2,3,4], but the complex association between tenure and job-related outcomes is not fully understood
One interpretation of this finding is that the positive association between affective organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) decreases as the likelihood of human capital accumulation decreases with organizational tenure [3] (p. 534)
The meta-analysis refers to organizational tenure, and yet human capital accumulation is more likely to decline with work tenure than with organizational tenure per se
Summary
Citizenship Behaviors; A Study in Ghanaian Technical Universities. Research Centre for Employability, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, 6131 MT Sittard, The Netherlands. Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), Maastricht University, 6211 LM Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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