Job Satisfaction, Academic Motivation, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Lecturers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-National Comparative Study in Japan and Malaysia

Autor/inn/en	Ghasemy, Majid; Elwood, James A.
Titel	Job Satisfaction, Academic Motivation, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior among Lecturers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-National Comparative Study in Japan and Malaysia
Quelle	In: Asia Pacific Education Review, 24 (2023) 3, S.353-367 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ghasemy, Majid)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1598-1037
DOI	10.1007/s12564-022-09757-6
Schlagwörter	Job Satisfaction; Teacher Motivation; Organizational Culture; Behavior; COVID-19; Pandemics; Foreign Countries; Japan; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Unternehmenskultur; Ausland
Abstract	Job satisfaction and its antecedents and outcomes are important areas of focus in the social sciences research, and higher education is no exception. The importance of this issue has grown during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this reason, using a cross-national study conducted in Malaysia and Japan, we collected data on lecturers' job satisfaction and two of its outcomes, namely, academic motivation and individual-level organizational citizenship behavior (OCBI) to test our evidence-based theoretical model, which explains the relationships between these variables. We also added age, gender, and tenure as covariates to our model. Our partial least squares structural equation modeling estimation results at the aggregate and country levels showed that the effect of job satisfaction on OCBI was mainly transmitted through academic motivation. We also observed that Malaysian and Japanese lecturers did not show a statistical difference in terms of the relationships described between the variables in our model. Additionally, the relationship between academic motivation and OCBI was nonlinear based on the data from the Malaysian sample, and we explained this phenomenon from both theoretical and practical/policy perspectives. Moreover, our results showed that age plays an important role in the model when it is estimated using data from the Malaysian higher education system. We discussed our findings in detail in terms of theoretical and practical implications. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01