Antecedentes atitudinais de comportamento de cidadania organizacional percebidos em mulheres da equipe de enfermagem de um hospital público de Santa Maria

Abstract

Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) constitute gestures of volunteers, all contributing to organizational efficiency. Such behaviors are essentially linked to helping behavior, usually characterized as practices associated with the feminine nature and present in professions such as nursing. Hence, the implementation of the present study aimed at understanding the influence of three predictors (affective commitment, involvement with work and job satisfaction) on the factors of organizational citizenship behavior (favorable climate, creative suggestions, system protection, and self-training cooperation with colleagues), taking into account gender issues. According to this end, we did a descriptive and quantitative. The sample consisted of 252 professional women of the nursing staff of a public hospital. The collection was done through a survey instrument containing the personal and functional data, followed by questions containing the Scales of Affective Organizational Commitment (SAOC) Involvement Scale with work (ISW); Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS) and Scale of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (SOCB), developed by Siqueira (1995). The data were analyzed in three stages, with the help of SPSS software to perform statistical tests. In the first step, we tried to verify, through factor analysis, the composition of the variables for the formation of scale factors of organizational citizenship. The second step we analyzed the differences in perception on attitudinal antecedents. In the third stage, by hierarchical and stepwise regressions, we tested the influence of attitudinal antecedents on CCO. Regarding the assessment factor, this resulted in the formation of four factors including the variables of organizational citizenship. The mean analysis indicated the perceived affective attitudes in the hospital. Regression analysis for the attitudinal antecedents related to affective commitment showed a higher incidence of feelings of pride, when compared to feelings of courage; in relation to involvement with work showed that the personal connection to the work has a lower incidence in pleasant hours of work; regarding job satisfaction, interest in the task exceeded the attitudes of defense organization. Hence, the implementation of the present study has demonstrated the influence of affective variables have on organizational citizenship behaviors in the hospital.