NOT-ON-SEAT - AN INVESTIGATION OF SOME CORRELATES OF ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR IN NIGERIA

This study set out to examine a regular Nigerian practice known locall y as 'Not-on-seat', a Nigerian equivalent of the tardiness concept whi ch means reporting on time, leaving the premises immediately after, an d only returning hours later. The practice was considered as an aspect of the service attitude in Nigerian public organisations. The attitud e was in turn operationalised as organisational citizenship behaviour. It was hypothesised that job involvement and affective commitment wou ld be positively correlated with 'Not-on-seat' (organisational citizen ship behaviour). A null hypothesis of no relationship between job sati sfaction and 'not-on-seat' (citizenship behaviour) was also proposed. 268 men and women took part in the study. Supervisors rated the worker s' 'Not-on-seat' or organisational citizenship behaviour. The results supported the hypothesis and also rejected the null hypothesis. Job in volvement followed by affective commitment had the highest zero order correlation. Job satisfaction correlated relatively weakly, though sig nificantly, with 'Not-on-seat' or organisational citizenship behaviour .