HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN WIRE AND CABLE INDUSTRY IN SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA
HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN WIRE AND CABLE INDUSTRY IN SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA

Summary/Abstract: The study investigated the relationship between human resource management practic-es and components of organisational citizenship behaviour in the wire and cable in-dustry. The study relied on primary data which was generated through the administra-tion of a structured questionnaire. The study population (1,200) comprised all the em-ployees of the seven wire and cable manufacturing companies in South-western Nige-ria. Using the Yamane’s formula, a total sample size of 570 employees were purpos-ively selected on the bases of the location of the companies. Data collected were ana-lyzed using percentage, correlation analysis and multiple regression. The results showed seven types of HRM practices in the wire and cable industry and they were rated by the employees as follows: Compensation Management (95%), Conflict Man-agement (84%), Employee Empowerment (81%), Welfare Programme and Performance Appraisal (80%), Recruitment and Selection (76%), Career Development (70%). The results revealed that there were four prominent organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) component in the selected industry. They were ranked as follows: Sportsman-ship (91%), Altruism (80%), Civic Virtue (77%), and Courtesy (75%). The results fur-ther showed that the HRM practices had significant and positive relationship with sportsmanship (t = 2.311, p < 0.05); altruism (t = 4.201, p < 0.05); and courtesy (r = 2.067, p < 0.05); in the wire and cable industry. The study concluded that human re-sources management practices influenced organizational citizenship behaviour in the wire and cable industry.

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