EXAMINING PERSON- JOB FIT AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR: AN APPLICATION OF WORK INVOLVEMENT AS A MODERATOR

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to see whether employee's Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) is influenced by their person-job fit at among public servants at Ministry of Home Affairs. Therefore, this research paper examined the relationship between person-job (P-J) fit, work involvement and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB). This study's sample size is equal to 1114 staffs. A simple random sample approach was used. The questionnaire was distributed to 285 respondents from a total of 1114 employees for this study. 267 questionnaires were collected, with a response rate of 93.68%. The SPSS version 27 was used for analysis. The first objective was to investigate the influence of person-job (P-J) fit on OCB among public servants. The study found that person-job fit is not significant in predicting OCB. The second objective was to investigate the moderating role of work involvement in influencing the link between person- job (P-J) fit and OCB among public servants. Work involvement has moderation effect on the relationship between person-job fit and OCB. It can be concluded; work involvement is a moderator for the link between person-job fit and OCB as the dependent variable. This study's findings revealed a significant F change in model three of the four-step hierarchical regression analysis, indicating that work involvement should be viewed as a predictor of job success rather than a moderator. As a result, future research should investigate the idea of including work involvement as an independent variable. Even though various studies have been undertaken to evaluate the linkages between person-job fit and OCB, this study has successfully addressed the wide gap by including work involvement as a crucial moderating component. More interestingly, even though several restrictions, this research has empirically clarified every one of the research questions.