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Staff Academic Job Behavior in Malaysian Public University

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Jamal @ Nordin Yunus, Omar Abdull Kareem, Sharil @ Charil Marzuki, Hamidah Yusof, Zahari Hashim

Pages 303-311 Received: 30 Nov, -0001 Revised: 30 Nov, -0001 Published Online: 08 Nov, 2016

http://dx.doi.org/10.46886/IJARBSS/v6-i11/2398
The purpose of this study is to exam the behavior of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) among academic staff. The respondents of this study consist of 1704 people academic staff in public university selected by simple random. A set of questionnaires was used based on Organizational Behavior Scale containing 22 items with five dimensions that is Altruism, Conscientiousness, Sportsmanship, Courtesy and Civic virtue were used as the main research instrument. Overall, this study shows that the dimensions of Civic virtue is higher relative from other dimensions. The findings of this study also found that only dimensions of Conscientiousness differ between male with female staff. The implications of this study clearly showed the academic staff in higher education exceeded its duties from official duties specified