Employee Citizenship Behaviour and Job Satisfaction in Tertiary Institutions in Edo State

This paper examined employee citizenship Behaviour and Job Satisfaction in selected tertiary institutions in Edo State. This study used selected tertiary institutions in Edo State which included University of Benin, Benin City Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma and Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi. The objective of this study is to examine the extent to which Altruism affects challenging work, How conscientiousness determine employee recognition and how courtesy determine employee commitment in Tertiary institution in Edo state. The study covered both the academic staff and non teaching staff of these institutions. The population of this study comprises the three tertiary institutions under study is 11,608 two thousand, two hundred and twenty seven 2227 staff of Auchi Polytechnic Auchi, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma we have three thousand five hundred and twenty nine 3529 and for University of Benin, Benin City. Six thousand and fifty two 6052 which includes both academic and non academic staff making a total of 11,608. The study employed one thousand and seventy three 1073 employees respondents as the sample size of this study. 5 point Likert scale was used to measure the responses of the respondents. The analytical tool used was E view version 7.0. The findings showed that Altruism AUTM negatively affects challenging work in tertiary institution in Edo State. Conscientiousness positively impacts on Employee Recognition and Courtesy positively impacts employee commitment in tertiary institutions The study concluded that Employee citizenship behavior and job satisfaction in tertiary institutions in Edo State are driven by the level of courtesy CURT and Conscientiousness CUOS . Altruism AUTM negatively affects job satisfaction in tertiary institutions. The study further recommended amongst others that all Edo State owned tertiary institutions should enhance the level of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors by investing on acceptable ECB that will install conscientiousness on the worker because if it is higher, job satisfaction among employees will improve and institutional goals will be achieved. Izuagie Mark | Prof S. A Anah | Dr. G. C Mgbemena "Employee Citizenship Behaviour and Job Satisfaction in Tertiary Institutions in Edo State" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-5 , August 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd50582.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/management-development/50582/employee-citizenship-behaviour-and-job-satisfaction-in-tertiary-institutions-in-edo-state/izuagie-mark