Environment Citizenship Research Articles

The Role of OCB as a Mediator in Improving Employees Performance

Employee performance is a measure of the quality of human resources in a company, because employee performance is one important factor for the achievement of a company's goals. Employee performance can be influenced by several factors, such as training, work environment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of training and work environment to employee’s performance with Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) as the intervening. This research was conducted at the Semarang City Education Department by taking a sample of 115 respondents registered as active officials of the Semarang City Education Department. Data collection method is done through a questionnaire. Data analysis uses path analysis. The results of the study concluded that there is an influence of training and work environment on OCB, the influence of OCB on employee performance and OCB is able to mediate the relationship between training and work environment on employee performance.

Displaying Values, Scripting Stories: Writing Narratives of Environment Citizenship through Permanent Educational Exhibits at Local Nature Preserves

Material and interactive exhibits are important elements of many sites of learning, including science, technology, history and natural history museums. Parks and nature preserves are not usually identified as museums, and their purpose and mission do not necessarily align with the mission focus of museums. We argue here, however, that permanent environmental education exhibits at preserves should be treated as museums for analytic purposes. Preserve displays typically include collections of objects from within the park’s boundaries, i.e., bones, shells, rocks, skeletons, feathers, pelts, cones, etc., in addition to manufactured displays presenting ecosystems and physical as well as living elements of the environment. Exhibits at preserves have not been the focus of scholarship on museums to date. Bringing together analytic tools developed for museum experiences with evaluative frameworks from the field of environmental education provides a rich set of concepts for understanding the work that nature preserve exhibits do to increase ecoliteracy. We analyze permanent and interactive educational exhibits at three nature preserves in Florida through the application of a series of interdisciplinary and overlapping frameworks. We identify opportunities for transmission of knowledge about the environment and human interactions with local landscapes; opportunities for cognitive engagement with material artefacts and for participation in knowledge construction. We identify messages that use emotional engagement to encourage visitors to become active citizens on behalf of nature and humans; and to ultimately engage in sustainable actions to solve environmental problems.

The Influence of the Work Environment, Organizational Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Employee Performance and Motivation as Intervening (Studies in the Matahari Department Store Tbk. Tunjungan Plaza in Surabaya, Indonesia)

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of the Influence of the Work Environment, Organizational Commitment And Organizational Citizenship Behavior On employee Performance through Motivation as an intervening Matahari Department Store Tbk Tunjungan Plaza in Surabaya. The population of this research was conducted by using the sampling technique of the research is taken from the population by using the method the sample is saturated, meaning that all existing populations as a complement to the sample, so the sample used the same magnitude with the population of 125 employees. Path analysis and hypothesis test using t test. The results of this study show that work environment has positive and significant effect on employee performance; work environment influential positive and significantly to the motivation; organizational commitment and significant positive effect on employee motivation; organizational commitment and significant positive effect terhaadap employee performance; OCB positive and significant effect on employee performance. OCB have a positive and significant impact on employee motivation; motivation has positive and significant effect on employee performance; work environment influential positive and significant on employee performance through motivation; commitment otganisasi positive and significant effect on employee performance through motivation, and OCB positive and significant effect on employee performance through motivation. Keywords: Work Environment, organizational commitment, OCB, motivation, performance DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-35-08 Publication date: December 31 st 2019

PENGARUH KEPRIBADIAN DAN LINGKUNGAN KERJA TERHADAP ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR (OCB) DAN KINERJA TENAGA MEDIS

This study aimed to determine the effect of personality, work environment, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) on the performance of medical workers directly and indirectly mediated by Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). The population of this study were medical workers at the Sumber Hidup Hospital and Hative Hospital in Ambon City, which were 164 people. The number of samples used in this study were 116 medical workers obtained by using the Slovin formula and the sampling technique used was probability sampling with simple random sampling method. Data collection techniques were questionnaires, interviews and documentation studies. Descriptive statistical analysis, path analysis using SPSS for windows version 23 were applied as a data analysis method. The results showed that there was a positive and significant direct influence of personality on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) with a significance value of 0.005 < 0.05. There was a positive and significant direct influence of the work environment on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) with a significance value of 0.001 < 0.05. There was a direct positive and significant influence of the medical workers performance with a significance value of 0.002 < 0.05. There was a positive and significant direct influence of the work environment on the medical workers performance with a significance value of 0.001 < 0.05. There wass a positive and significant direct influence of Organizational Citizenship Behavior ( OCB) on the medical workers performance with a significance value of 0.008 < 0.05. Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) mediated the relationship of personality to medical workers performace was (0.343 > 0.282). While Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) mediated the relationship of the work environment to the medical workers performace (0.374 > 0.299) so that H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 , and H7 were accepted.

공항공사와 항공사 아웃소싱 직원의 근무환경과 직무만족, 조직 유효성 간의 관계 연구

The main purpose is the effectively improving the working conditions of the two groups and keeping a high level of service quality and aims to contribute to raise the world's most competitive airport services. First, recognition on work environment of Incheon International Airport and the airline outsourcing staffs shows that there is a difference. In particular, external working environment related with salaries and benefits, environment-related work conditions and the social working environment related with staff's cooperation, atmosphere at work, etc. has shown a difference. Second, between airlines outsourcing staffs on working environment and organizational citizenship behavior, the relationship of external working environment related with salary, benefits, good working environment and organizational citizenship behavior affects negative(-). Third, the manager of airport cooperation and airline has to make on effort for improvement with constant attention due to the effects of the perception of working environment on job satisfaction and organizational effectiveness is very large impact. Fourth, the difference analysis of the demographic characteristics are more interested and sensitive to working environment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment on less than one year of service staff and spent more than 4 years or 5 years of service staffs. To maintain service competitiveness and quality, it absolutely needs to special care and improvement in order to meet the staffs' interests related to working environment, job satisfaction and organizational commitment working for less than one year staff and over 5 years of service staffs considering change of occupation.

How Does Leader’s Support for Environment Promote Organizational Citizenship Behaviour for Environment? A Multi-Theory Perspective

Organizational citizenship behaviour for environment of employees is indispensable in realizing environmental sustainability goals of organizations. However, in the growing literature of employee green behaviour at work, scant attention has been paid on the impact of leader’s specific support for environment, and the mechanisms through which it impacts organizational citizenship behaviour for environment. Drawing upon social exchange theory, self-determination theory and theory of normative conduct, we tested the impact of leader’s support for environment, autonomous motivation for environment and perceived group’s green climate on organizational citizenship behaviour for environment in an integrated model. The sample included 313 executive level employees of green implemented textile and apparel manufacturing factories in Sri Lanka. The results of structural equation modelling showed a direct positive impact of leader’s support for environment on organizational citizenship behaviour for environment. Further, autonomous motivation for environment and perceived group’s green climate were found to be partial mediators between leader’s support for environment and organizational citizenship behaviour for environment. We discussed the theoretical implications for sustainability literature and the managerial implications for organizational practitioners in promoting organizational citizenship behaviour for environment.

The World Towns Framework: a call to action

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present the background to the development of the World Towns’ Framework, developed in June 2016 at the inaugural World Towns Leadership Summit in Scotland. The paper also provides an academic underpinning to the four pillars of the agreement; a unique sense of identity and place, economy, leadership and citizenship and environment. It ends with a call to action for practitioners, policymakers and organisations providing support to people in places who want to contribute to the development of the Framework and adopt it.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is divided into four sections. The first section gives the background to the development of the World Towns Framework. The second section publishes the World Towns Framework in its entirety. The third section builds an evidence-base for the components or pillars of the World Towns Framework, based upon work undertaken by the think tanks and academic partners involved in its development. The final section sets out a call for action – explaining how the Framework can be further developed and utilised.FindingsThe paper contains three main contributions. It articulates a new narrative for towns, neighbourhoods and city districts in responding to contemporary urban challenges; it shapes a new urban agenda for these urban places and it asserts the need for new alliances and approaches essential for a strong competitive economy, which is more inclusive of towns and smaller places, combined with a fairer, more equal society.Research limitations/implicationsThe evidence base for the research is limited to the work that has been carried out by the academic institutions and think tanks that supported the development of the World Towns’ Framework.Practical implicationsThe practical implication of the World Towns Framework are a shared understanding of how towns and smaller places can engage in management, development and marketing practices that will lead to a stronger economy and fairer society.Social implicationsThe focus upon place uniqueness and identity, a more equitable economy, a greener and cleaner environment and stronger place leadership and citizenship can lead to better, fairer and more liveable places.Originality valueThis is the first attempt to develop a World Towns Framework to shape urban change outside of cities and metropoles.

Media, Family, and Friends: Normative Environment and Global Citizenship Identification

Media, Family, and Friends: Normative Environment and Global Citizenship Identification

University Environment and Global Citizenship Identification

We examined the influence of the university environment (Study 1), and specific college courses (Study 2), on the antecedents and outcomes of global citizenship identification. In Study 1, participants’ perception of the university environment as prescribing a global citizen identity predicted the perception of one’s normative environment as prescribing this identity and global awareness (antecedents) leading to greater identification with global citizens. Global citizenship identification then predicted greater endorsement of prosocial values and behaviors (outcomes). In Study 2, participants’ perception of a class as encouraging greater global understanding influenced the antecedents, global citizenship identification, and its outcomes. The results highlight the importance of a university setting as a normative environment for development of global citizenship identification and related prosocial values.

Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration

Bilateral flows of international migrants exhibit tremendous variance both across destination countries and over time. To explain this variance, studies of international migration tend to focus on economic determinants such as income differentials or on social conditions such as the presence of coethnics in certain destination countries. The authors argue that migration is driven not solely by economic or social determinants; rather, the political environment across destinations plays a substantively large role in influencing bilateral migration flows. They test the importance of the political environment—citizenship rights and the prominence of right-wing parties—using data on migration flows from 178 origin countries into 18 destination countries over the period 1980–2006. They find, even after controlling for a variety of economic, social, policy, and international variables, that variation in political environments across time and destination plays a key role in observed patterns of international migration.

<b> Caminhos para uma cidadania planetária e ambiental </b> - doi: 10.5102/rdi.v9i3.1776

This article focuses on the relation between Law and citizenship. More precisely, with this study we aimed to argue the importance of the construction of an effective global and environmental citizenship, in order to apprehend the human and the environment in its complexity, as a dignified life for everyone. That means, for us, the life in dignity need the maintenance of a good environmental, because everything in the word is relational. In this way, life can develop itself and reproduce itself in a more equitably way. We used the inductive method for this work. So, first, the article focused on the analysis of what is the concept of environmental citizenship and how it manifests itself in modern times. After that, the article focused on the possibility of a global citizenship, ie a global citizenship of an environmental nature, which perceives the relationship of humans with themselves, with others and with the nature in favor for a dignified life. Finally, the conclusion is: although the importance of the actions of human beings on the local dimension, if we attempt a world change, the actions must be contextual. Furthermore, since the complexity of the world, it is necessary to expand the notion of environmental citizenship to environment & planetary citizenship, because it allows us to work in the contexts and it may cause a change in the global dimension in favor sustainability of decent life for current and future generations, as well as the life of the nature.

<b> Caminhos para uma cidadania planetária e ambiental </b> - doi: 10.5102/rdi.v9i3.1776

This article focuses on the relation between Law and citizenship. More precisely, with this study we aimed to argue the importance of the construction of an effective global and environmental citizenship, in order to apprehend the human and the environment in its complexity, as a dignified life for everyone. That means, for us, the life in dignity need the maintenance of a good environmental, because everything in the word is relational. In this way, life can develop itself and reproduce itself in a more equitably way. We used the inductive method for this work. So, first, the article focused on the analysis of what is the concept of environmental citizenship and how it manifests itself in modern times. After that, the article focused on the possibility of a global citizenship, ie a global citizenship of an environmental nature, which perceives the relationship of humans with themselves, with others and with the nature in favor for a dignified life. Finally, the conclusion is: although the importance of the actions of human beings on the local dimension, if we attempt a world change, the actions must be contextual. Furthermore, since the complexity of the world, it is necessary to expand the notion of environmental citizenship to environment & planetary citizenship, because it allows us to work in the contexts and it may cause a change in the global dimension in favor sustainability of decent life for current and future generations, as well as the life of the nature.

An Integrative Model Linking Feedback Environment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

ABSTRACT Past empirical evidence has suggested that a positive supervisor feedback environment may enhance employees' organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). In this study, we aim to extend previous research by proposing and testing an integrative model that examines the mediating processes underlying the relationship between supervisor feedback environment and employee OCB. Data were collected from 259 subordinate-supervisor dyads across a variety of organizations in Taiwan. We used structural equation modeling to test our hypotheses. The results demonstrated that supervisor feedback environment influenced employees' OCB indirectly through (1) both positive affective-cognition and positive attitude (i.e., person-organization fit and organizational commitment), and (2) both negative affective-cognition and negative attitude (i.e., role stressors and job burnout). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Organizational anomie as moderator of the relationship between an unfavorable attitudinal environment and citizenship behavior (OCB)

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between an unfavorable attitudinal environment and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The proposed model suggests that organizational anomie (OA) acts as a moderator of that link, and thus OA interacts with unfavorable attitudes and OCB by tightening their theoretical negative association.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 154 of the 758 non‐teaching staff at a Spanish public university. Accessibility of individual e‐mail accounts was similar for all employees. E‐mails asking for collaboration were sent in two phases. A questionnaire was posted on the university intranet and could be accessed by clicking on a link in the e‐mails.FindingsMultiple hierarchical regression results support the moderating role of OA of the unfavorable attitude‐OCB link because the unfavorable attitudes toward co‐workers and toward the boss as‐a‐person among employees with low, compared with high OA, have a stronger negative relationship with OCB. OA moderation existed, but to varying degrees, between attitude toward one's job and some dimensions of OCB (OCBI, and OCBI client). OA also intensified the unpredicted positive relationship between attitude toward boss's performance and OCB. No moderating influences were observed in the case of attitudes toward oneself and toward clients (students).Research limitations/implicationsThe researched employees have job conditions inherent to the peculiarities of the public sector which may limit the ability to extrapolate the findings in the private sector. Findings provide a more understandable mechanism of the influence of attitudes on OCB. The research may aid OA acceptance into organizations, providing an explicit justification for the OA distinctiveness with other variables in the existing OB literature.Practical implicationsThe findings contribute to a better understanding of the attitudes‐OCB link, and the ways to favor OCB through OA.Originality/valueThe use of OA as a moderator on this link is unprecedented.

New Economy Businesses in Rural, Urban, and Metropolitan Locations

Abstract The service sector has replaced manufacturing as the primary employer in the United States. Fastest growing within this sector are producer services, i.e., those businesses that provide service inputs to other businesses and government. Theorists posit that the propensity of producer services to locate in metro areas advantages cities in relation to rural areas. They argue that significant numbers of producer services are unlikely to locate in rural areas due to the economic and cultural benefits offered by central cities and that producer services in rural locations are qualitatively different from metro firms. Perceptions of the environment, management strategies, and community citizenship were analyzed with data from 259 producer service business owners and managers in Iowa rural, urban, and metropolitan communities. The findings point to qualitative differences between the businesses based on community size, but also many similarities were found. Rural producer services reported more community citizenship than other businesses.

The mediating role of affective commitment in the relation of the feedback environment to work outcomes

The Feedback Environment, as opposed to the formal performance appraisal process, is comprised of the daily interactions between members of an organization ( Steelman, Levy, & Snell, in press). Relations between the feedback environment and work outcome variables such as Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) were examined through the mediating effects of affective commitment. Results indicate that affective commitment mediates the relation between the feedback environment and organizational citizenship behavior, and this mediated relation is stronger for OCBs directed at individuals than directed at the organization as a whole. Conclusions and implications are discussed.

The right to development: construction of a non-agriculturalist discourse of rurality in Denmark

The paper argues for the existence of two powerful discourses of rurality in Denmark after World War II. The first one is termed the modernist-agriculturalist discourse. Although still influential in the current public debate, in Denmark as well as in other Western European countries, this discourse of rurality had its heyday in the 1960s. It is based on key words, such as structural changes, development and vertical integration. Since the 1950s, it has belonged to groups of Danish farmers who use a productionist terminology in the public debate. However, the paper mainly focuses on a second discourse of rurality, established during the 1970s. Based on key words, such as community, culture, environment and active citizenship, this terminology was applied and promoted by new non-agricultural elites in the villages and can therefore be termed the non-agriculturalist discourse of rurality. The paper shows how this new ‘family’ of powerful words was developed and promoted by The National Confederation of Village Communities in rural Denmark ( Landssammenslutningen af Landsbysamfund or L.A.L.), established in 1976. Thus, from the late 1970s, members of this organization contributed to build and apply a peculiar L.A.L. vocabulary in their journal Landsbyen (“The village”)—a vocabulary which later was to be disseminated among the population and, finally, to have a significant impact on state politics.