REVISITING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND VOCATIONAL BUSINESS EDUCATORS’BEHAVIOURAL OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH-SOUTH GEOPOLITICAL ZONE OF NIGERIA
Keywords:
Contextual Performance, Job Demands Working Environment, Job Resources Working Environment, Prosocial Organizational Behaviour, Task PerformanceAbstract
Following the job demands–resources (JD-R) model, the research examined the relationships between working environment dimensions (that is, job demands working environment and job resources working environment) and vocational business educators’ behavioural outcomes (that is, job performance and prosocial organizational behaviours). A non-experimental design was employed to achieve the specific aims of the research. The samples consisted of 145 vocational business educators from 12 public universities in the South-South geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Data were collected through a pen and paper adapted psychological measurement scale, which is made up of three instruments, namely: Job demands-resources scale, job performance scale, and prosocial scale. The validity and reliability of these instruments were well established. Correlation and regression analyses were performed. High demands working environment were found to be associated with low task performance, contextual performance and prosocial organizational behaviours. Low resources working environment were associated with low task performance, contextual performance and prosocial organizational behaviours. High demands working environment had a significant negative effect on vocational business educators task performance (β = -.158, t = -1.919), contextual performance (β = -.253, t = -3.124) and prosocial organizational behaviours (β = -.206, t = -2.514).Low resources working environment had a significant positive effect on vocational business educators task performance (β = .159, t = 1.924), contextual performance (β = .251, t = 3.102) and prosocial organizational behaviours (β = .344, t = 4.388).This is one of the few research that use the JD-R model to assess the relationships between working environment and behavioural outcomes.
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