Organizational citizenship and self-regulated behaviour among software executives in the context of job-insecurity

Pages: 93-97
K. N. Jayakumar and S. Kadhiravan (Department of Psychology, Periyar University, Salem, Tamil Nadu)

Job-insecurity has increased markedly in the developed economies of the world and the effects of it on the individual employee and on organizational outcomes however are controversial. Reviews have suggested that job-insecurity could have both positive as well as negative impact on the performance and hardly there is any literature on citizenship as well as self-regulated behaviour. This research investigated the prevalence of organizational citizenship behaviour and self-regulated behaviour among the software executives at a time of perceived job-insecurity. 73(N) executives responded to the survey, the analysis of data showed that organizational citizenship, self-regulated behaviour was prevalent, and both shared a significant correlation. Age, experience, and self-regulated behavior significantly differentiated organizational citizenship behaviour. The study concludes by highlighting that job-insecurity need not always have a detrimental effect on performance and organizational citizenship behaviour along with self-regulated behaviour could serve as a key to the sustenance in the job.