Social well-being, job satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour and intentions to leave in a utility organisation
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Social well-being, job satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour and intentions to leave in a utility organisation | |
| Creator | Hennicks, Eugeny Heyns, Marita M. Rothmann, Sebastiaan | |
| Description | Orientation: Employee social well-being is likely to influence individual and organisational outcomes, especially in African countries where a high premium is often placed on one’s personhood being rooted in one’s relations with others.Research purpose: This study investigated the associations between social well-being, job satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour and intentions to leave in a South African utility organisation.Motivation for the study: Given the history of relationships amongst diverse people in South Africa, social well-being seems to be a critical component of the overall well-being of employees. However, few studies in South Africa have focused on social well-being in organisational contexts.Research approach/design and method: A cross-sectional survey design was used, targeting permanent employees in a South African utility organisation. Consenting participants (N = 403) completed previously validated measures of social well-being, job satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour and intentions to leave. Structural equation modelling was performed to test hypotheses.Main findings: Social well-being was positively associated with job satisfaction and organisational citizenship behaviour and negatively associated with intentions to leave. Social well-being indirectly affected organisational citizenship behaviour and intention to leave through job (dis)satisfaction.Practical/managerial implications: Managers and human resources practitioners are alerted to practical ways of sustaining employees’ social well-being such as by implementing tailor-made policies that support social aspects of well-being and by ensuring the alignment of well-being programmes with changing circumstances in the modern world of work.Originality/value-add: This study illuminated social well-being associations with selected outcomes in a developing African country workplace context. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2022-03-11 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v48i0.1928 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 48 (2022); 11 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
| Language | eng | |
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