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This study was undertaken to examine the importance of job satisfaction and its influence on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) in Osun State-owned tertiary institutions with a view to examining the relationship between OCB and improved organisational performance and also the relationship between job satisfaction and organisational effectiveness. A survey method of a correlative type was employed to achieve the research objectives. The researchers designed a questionnaire which was used to measure job satisfaction and staff commitment in relation to OCB and this was administered to 200 staff members selected from the Osun State Colleges of Education in Ila-Orangun and Ilesa, as well as Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke using a simple random sampling technique. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Research questions were answered using frequency counts and tables, while the hypotheses were tested using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient at a .05 level of significance. Findings revealed that job satisfaction is very important in determining citizenship behaviours at the selected institutions. It was therefore recommended that participation in OCB could be encouraged by giving priority to all factors influencing employee job satisfaction at the selected institutions.

In 2018, the anthropological literature on economics was enriched by the publication of a book that argues for building communication bridges between financial experts and the public. It identifies the main blind spots on both sides, discusses the need to substantiate a new narrative legitimacy for central banks, and gives experts in these prominent institutions a rigorous call to action for a more effective communication. Annelis Riles's Financial Citizenship is the outcome of more than 20 years of research on central banking culture and the social ties between financial regulators and the other financial market participants. The book complements analysis with thorough fieldwork, and one of its strengths is access to sources in the relevant institutions.

The relationship between conflict resolution strategies and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and the moderating role of trait Emotional Intelligence (EI) were investigated. Participants were 320 public servants (male = 180, female = 140) randomly selected from 5 states in southwestern
Nigeria. Measures of trait EI, OCB, and conflict resolution strategies were administered to the respondents, and multiple regression was used to analyze the data collected. The results indicate that forcing and withdrawing strategies negatively and significantly predicted OCB. Confronting,
compromising, and smoothing strategies significantly predicted OCB. Trait EI moderated the relationship between OCB and forcing and withdrawing strategies. It was recommended that counseling and organizational psychologists should design trait EI education and training in conflict resolution
for both subordinates and superiors in work organizations.

The problem of active citizenship has mainly been approached through the perspective of participation. According to the most recent definitions, active citizenship «involves participation in the market [. .] participation in other social spheres {.] and politics itself» (Dean, 1999:189); «is about having the right, the means, the space and the opportunity and where necessary the support to par- ticipate in and influence decisions and engage in actions and activities so as to contribute to building a better society» (Council of Europe, 2003) and «incorporates a wide spread of participatory activities containing political action, partici- patory democracy and civil society and community support» (Mascherini et at. ,2009:10). In a more recent definition, «citizenship competence [is defined as] the ability to act as responsible citizens and to fully participate in civic and social life, based on understanding of social, economic, legal and political concepts and structures, as well as global developments and sustainability» (European Commission; 2018: 22-23). This paper takes a different stance and argues that the organic relation between the individual and its environment that has characterized citizenship in previous times is a fundamental precondition for the development of active citizenship in the EU context. In order to support this argument, the paper drew on political philosophy and urban theory to locate the types and forms of organicity that have been deemed fundamental in previous micro-scale political and territorial entities. In order to explore this argument empirically, this study explored how 180 students from three EU countries perceive Europe through a word association activity. Research results revealed that not only students do not perceive to have an organic relationship with Europe but also that their perception of Europe is char- acterized by absence and detachment. In the succeeding sections, the paper outlines the theoretical framework that underpins the leading argument, presents the ...

The current trends in technology and globalization has encouraged Human resource management practices to adopt optimized strategies in dealing with challenges face by the educational institutions. In order to achieve the desired results and outcomes in educational institutions in a definite timeframe, valuable policies, capabilities and values need to be implemented. For creating a sustainable organizational environment, the organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been developed for supportive and cooperative interaction and relationship between the employer and employee by cooperating with each other for effective running of the schools. The current study is aimed to investigate the relationship between HRM practices and OCB in higher secondary schools in Dir Lower& Upper. This study is quantitative in nature and data was collected through closed ended questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed with person correlation techniques. It is found that HRM practices has a notable relationship with organizational citizenship behavior in higher secondary schools in Pakistan and results further speak out that performance appraisal has a high relationship with OCB while the rest of practices have low relationship with OCB. After discussion in light of available literature, recommendations has been framed for educational institutions and policy maker.

This article examines the case studies of Cadbury's and Rowntree's to show how two particular factories have been transformed into what could be called middle-range experimental spaces. It demonstrates how one particular setting of industrial 'governmentality' was established, based on cooperation, 'mutual understanding', and 'empowerment' in order to overcome confrontational approaches in personnel management as well as outdated modes of 'benevolent paternalism'. Cadbury- and Rowntree-style social engineering, the article argues, redefined its task to create what one could call 'factory citizenship'. Within this context, it was the metaphor of building a house that made it possible to foster workers' 'responsibility' without making too many concessions to a more radical version of industrial democracy. Since these concepts had a strong gender bias, the article interprets this particular kind of social engineering as an effort to turn factories into 'gendered spaces'.

As a conscription-based military, the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) fulfils an important role in transforming Singaporean boys from various classes and ethnic backgrounds into adult men. At a time when there is interest in the production and performativity of military masculinities in countries that have abandoned conscription, this article examines how, as a rite of passage into manhood, compulsory enlistment in the SAF reproduces hegemonic masculinities denoting ruggedness, perseverance, leadership, muscular manliness and self-discipline. Whilst the SAF can be represented as a site for hegemonic masculinities in the authoritarian Southeast Asian city-state, this work articulates a framework for theorizing how military masculinities are responsible for gendering male citizenship in Singapore. It also suggests that military masculinities can be conceptualized as cultural capital that allows Singaporean males to construct masculinity and assert a male identity in various social settings whilst gaining access to elite networks of power.

This article addresses a central puzzle in the history of rural
women: Why have women on family farms, despite their equal partnership in
production and conduct of farming business, fallen short of " economic
citizenship"? By means of a unique data set, this study demonstrates that
on Finnish family farms between the 1920s and 1950s, women worked longer
hours than men. At the same time, and concurrently with mechanization
and commercialization of production, social and cultural notions of
women�s work were primarily reduced to dealing with reproductive work
and consumption rather than production. In the eyes of census takers and
economists, women's agricultural work was rendered invisible and their
household work devalued. Farm women, subsequently, were not considered
to be part of the economic sphere that laid the groundwork for civil
and social rights in the post-World War II welfare society.