The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants

Civil servants have a vital role to play in the execution of various national economic transformation plans in realizing Vision 2020. Civil servants who possess OCB that voluntarily transcend beyond their task performance expectation are crucial to enhance government delivery efficiency to the publi...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Zulhusni, Mohamad Rashid
التنسيق: أطروحة
اللغة:eng
eng
منشور في: 2020
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/1/s92989_01.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/2/s92989_02.pdf
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spelling my-uum-etd.96662022-12-28T02:53:24Z The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants 2020 Zulhusni, Mohamad Rashid Sri Ramalu, Subramaniam Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HD58.7 Organizational Behavior. Civil servants have a vital role to play in the execution of various national economic transformation plans in realizing Vision 2020. Civil servants who possess OCB that voluntarily transcend beyond their task performance expectation are crucial to enhance government delivery efficiency to the public. Islamic work ethics has been widely embraced by the majority of civil servants in this country and has a significant effect on various workplace behaviours. This study aims to determine the mediation effect of employee engagement on the relationship between Islamic work ethics and OCB among Malaysian Civil Servants. Based on the theoretical framework, four main hypotheses were developed, and statistically tested. The sample size suggested are 256 employees were drawn from Human Resources Department from Unfederated Malay States (UFMS) namely Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu using a stratified random sampling procedure. Using a survey method, a total of 153 state civil servants have participated in this study. The hypotheses of the study were tested by applying multiple regression and parallel mediation test. In brief, the results indicated a positive relationship between some dimensions of IWE and OCB, between IWE and EE and between EE and OCB. Similarly, a negative relation between some aspects of IWE and OCB, between IWE and EE and between EE and OCB. In addition, the study found that the EE mediates the relationship between IWE and OCB. Hence, this study was able to expand the boundary of existing literature. Finally, the findings from this study provided has a few managerial implications to government agencies and policymakers in ensuring efficient public service delivery. 2020 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/1/s92989_01.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/2/s92989_02.pdf text eng public other doctoral Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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language eng
eng
advisor Sri Ramalu, Subramaniam
topic HD58.7 Organizational Behavior.
spellingShingle HD58.7 Organizational Behavior.
Zulhusni, Mohamad Rashid
The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants
description Civil servants have a vital role to play in the execution of various national economic transformation plans in realizing Vision 2020. Civil servants who possess OCB that voluntarily transcend beyond their task performance expectation are crucial to enhance government delivery efficiency to the public. Islamic work ethics has been widely embraced by the majority of civil servants in this country and has a significant effect on various workplace behaviours. This study aims to determine the mediation effect of employee engagement on the relationship between Islamic work ethics and OCB among Malaysian Civil Servants. Based on the theoretical framework, four main hypotheses were developed, and statistically tested. The sample size suggested are 256 employees were drawn from Human Resources Department from Unfederated Malay States (UFMS) namely Johor, Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu using a stratified random sampling procedure. Using a survey method, a total of 153 state civil servants have participated in this study. The hypotheses of the study were tested by applying multiple regression and parallel mediation test. In brief, the results indicated a positive relationship between some dimensions of IWE and OCB, between IWE and EE and between EE and OCB. Similarly, a negative relation between some aspects of IWE and OCB, between IWE and EE and between EE and OCB. In addition, the study found that the EE mediates the relationship between IWE and OCB. Hence, this study was able to expand the boundary of existing literature. Finally, the findings from this study provided has a few managerial implications to government agencies and policymakers in ensuring efficient public service delivery.
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title The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants
title_short The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants
title_full The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants
title_fullStr The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between Islamic work ethics, employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior among Malaysian civil servants
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publishDate 2020
url https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/1/s92989_01.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/9666/2/s92989_02.pdf
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