Employee empowerment and organizational citizenship behaviour

Damianus Abun; Theogenia Magallanes; Vanjesryl G. Calaycay; Melvin, F. Aurelio; Fredolin P. Julian

doi:10.36096/ijbes.v3i3.267

Authors

Damianus Abun Divine Word College of Laoag, Laoag City, Ilocos Norte, Philippines https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9693-1541
Theogenia Magallanes President, Saint Benedict College of the Northern Luzon, Ilocos Sur, Philippines
Vanjesryl G. Calaycay Instructor, School of Nursing, Divine Word College of Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Melvin, F. Aurelio Instructor, School of Nursing, Divine Word College of Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines
Fredolin P. Julian Professor, School of Business and Accountancy, Divine Word College of Laoag, Ilocos Norte, Philippines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36096/ijbes.v3i3.267

Keywords:

empowerment, organizational citizenship, the delegation of authority, autonomy, self-efficacy self-management.

Abstract

The study aimed to find out the effect of employee empowerment practices on the organizational citizenship behaviors of employees toward the organization and toward their coworkers (OCBP & OCBO). To support and establish the theory of the study, literature was reviewed. The study used the descriptive correlational research design and it used the questionnaires to gather the data. The study found that the empowerment practices of the Divine Word College of Laoag in terms of delegation of authority, autonomy, and self-efficacy self-management is high and even the different dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior are also high but not very high. Concerning the relationship between empowerment practices and organizational citizenship behavior of employees, the study was found to be significantly correlated. Therefore, the hypothesis of this study is accepted.

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