Psychological Capital and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Staff Nurses

Abstract

Context: Psychological capital is among new study aspects of interest to researchers of human capital, organizational behavior and psychology. On the other hand, Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) has been a focused subject by researchers due to increasing empirical evidence of OCB's impact on individual and organizational performance.
Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological capital and organizational citizenship behavior among staff nurses.

Methods: Design: A descriptive correlational design was used to conduct this study at Obstetrics and Gynecological Hospital on one hundred and nine nursing staff. Data collection tools include psychological capital Scale and organizational citizenship behavior scale. Results: The present study showed that the mean dimensions of self-efficacy 3.60±0.48 and optimism 3.25±0.45 had the highest and the lowest mean, respectively, of psychological capital. The results revealed that as for the dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior, the dimension of altruism (4.06±0. 62) while Civic virtue (civilized behavior had the lowest mean (3.80±0.52) and shows that the total mean score of organizational Citizenship Behavior were 3.91±0.41.

Conclusions: There is a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total staff nurses' perspectives regarding psychological capital and their total organizational citizenship behavior. The study recommended that hospital administrators should promote organizational citizenship behavior and, consequently, psychological capital by involving employees in decisions, consult with them, and intervention programs for nurses should be carried out to enhance their level of psychological capital.