Babcock Journal of Economics: ISSN: 2734-2239

Workplace Spirituality and Organizational Citizenship Behaviours: A Meta-Analysis

Authors: Okezie Nwokoma Goodluck,

Pages: (33-44 )

Abstract

Organizational citizenship is expected to correlate positively with workplace spirituality. This study employed meta-analysis design to investigate whether the findings of previous empirical findings are homogeneous or heterogeneous. 21 previous studies were considered in this study based on certain criteria, which gave a total of 75 variables and 19,194 samples points. The collated statistical variables such as correlation coefficients and sample sizes were presented in a research protocol. The data were run on comprehensive Meta-Analysis software 2.0. About 96% of the 21 articles in the study converged at the top area of the FZ-Funnel Plot of Standard Error. The Q-value was 2169.86, at 74 degree of freedom.  Hence, Q > 74, which implied that the, included articles did not share a common effect size.  It was found that 3.41% variance was due to sampling error in the measurement of the construct variables under review.  The z-value for the Random effects is 14.95 and the consequential p-value is 0.00. The treatments and interactions of the variables are heterogeneous from one study to the other. These have policy relevance for organizational management and implications for spiritual and strategic leadership, so as to harness the best practice in Workplace Spirituality and OCBs.

Keywords: Workplace, Spirituality, Citizenship behavior, Meta-analysis,

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