Empirical Study of Employees’ Career Attitudes and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour to Ensure Sound Organisational Health: A Structural Equation Approach

Abstract

In the era of globalisation, a lot of disruptions have brought about radical changes in how businesses operate. This has led to the changing patterns of employer-employee relationships which are important for the health of the organisation. This has called for the need to understand the career attitude of employees, working in the organisations. The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between protean career, boundaryless career attitude, organisational mobility preferences and organisational citizenship behaviour (an important parameter of sound organisational health) of Indian millennials. Data from 204 employees, working in multi-national organisations located in Delhi and the NCR region of India, was used to investigate the relationship between the said constructs and their relationship. The study focussed on multi analytical approach using structural equation modelling to study the relationships among the various dimensions. The results of the study show that protean career attitude, boundaryless career attitude and organisational mobility preferences are significantly related to each other. The study would help the organisations to work on designing career coping strategies for the employees to enhance their productivity at work. The study may add some important perspectives to the literature on career already available and may serve as a basis for further enhancing the psychological contract of the current workforce.