The Development of Teachers’ Career in Relationship to OCB and Justice: A Study in Malaysia

Abstract

This study is conducted to examine the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and teachers' Career Advancement (CA) in the context of the Malaysian teachers. Two aspects of teachers' CA such as number of promotion (NOP) and career satisfaction (CS) have been investigated in this study. This study also explores the roles of justice (distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice) as moderator in the relationship between OCB and CA. The data was gathered through mail survey method from 390 respondents. First, the result showed that OCB was not significantly related to NOP as well as to CS. Second, this study found that all factors of justice were the predictor to CS but not to NOP. The results also found that there was a significant interaction between OCB and distributive justice to NOP and CS. This study contributed some new knowledge which can be channeled to the Ministry of Education (MOE) to improve the level of OCB, justice and teachers' CA, particularly in the Malaysian context.

The Influences of Justice and Trust on the Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Generation X and Generation Y

“…Every organization needs the personnel to reflect more positive behaviors beyond their work roles. It means that the organization will have the personnel with tie and loyalty in the organization and willing to make the organization outstanding than other organization and to promote strength of the organization (Ekowati, Troena, & Noermijati, 2013;Saraih, Ali, & Khalid, 2015). Organizational citizenship behavior is what a person can share with the colleagues to help in operational problems.…”

“…Organizational justice also considers treatment of people too (Folger & Cropanzano, 1998;Sheppard, Lewicki, & Minton, 1992). From the review of the literature it was found that justice is the expectation of the staff on the returns from the organization as fair consideration of equity with a valid and transparent criteria that can be checked (Saraih et al, 2015). When the personnel perceives justice in the organization or from leader, it brings satisfaction and, confidence in the leader and the organization and the willingness to work with full efforts toward the organizational goal (Colquitt, 2012;Khan & Rashid, 2015;Zeinabadi & Salehi, 2011).…”

“…The perceived justice in the organization is the factor that creates trust in supervisor and organization onward. Many researchers have found that organizational justice has a positive relationship with organizational citizenship behavior at a statistical significant level (Cho & Dansereau, 2010;Saraih et al, 2015;Wang & Jiang, 2015;Zeinabadi & Salehi, 2011 …”

Gender and Predicting Intentions Among Malaysian Teachers

“…Thus, it is argued that the teacher's belief towards the performance appraisal system can be one of the factors that contribute in motivate most of the qualified teachers for the post of excellent teachers to apply for the position. From the study of Saraih et al (2015) and Hoque et al (2012) based on their interviewed information, a few factors were found demotivate qualified teachers for the post of Excellent Teachers that are: 1) the Excellent Teachers were not allowed to return as regular teacher 2) they can be transferred as per requirement from the Ministry of Education. In line with these two factors, no further research was conducted to support the significance of the relationship towards the behavior (Saraih et al, 2015).…”

“…From the study of Saraih et al (2015) and Hoque et al (2012) based on their interviewed information, a few factors were found demotivate qualified teachers for the post of Excellent Teachers that are: 1) the Excellent Teachers were not allowed to return as regular teacher 2) they can be transferred as per requirement from the Ministry of Education. In line with these two factors, no further research was conducted to support the significance of the relationship towards the behavior (Saraih et al, 2015). Hence, the current study included Belief towards Performance Appraisal System (BTPAS) as one of the predictors of intention to apply for promotion, thus indicate that BTPAS is one of the contributors in predicting intention to apply for promotion among teachers in Malaysia, in general.…”