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Professor Candice Harris Auckland University of TechnologyAssociate Professor Erica WilsonSouthern Cross University

Organisational Citizenship in the Academy

What is Organisational Citizenship?A set of positive workplace behaviours that are distinct from the employee’s work tasks

and that support organization members (your co-workers or stakeholders) and/or the work environment.

Organizational citizenship behaviour is

individual voluntary behaviour which is discretionary

; not directly or explicitly recognized by the formal reward system of the organization. (Organ et al, 2005).

Organisational CitizenshipHas an important place within classic theoriesand conceptualizations of work performance (see

Viswesvaran

& Ones, 2000).

It also serves as a key criterion variable for several organizational variables such as job attitudes and justice perceptions (Hoffman, Blair,

Meriac

, &

Woehr

, 2007).

- the ‘good soldier’ syndrome?

-

the glue that keeps universities together?

- service to disciplines to move beyond organisational borders

- demonstrating leadership?

- collecting CV activity?

Organisational Citizenship in the Academy

Organisational Citizenship Examples ERICA, eg:

Women’s mentoring &

promotion

CAUTHE Exec & SIGs

HDR students/mentoring

Conference organisation

AACSB/

AoL

Reconciliation Action Plan

CANDICE,

eg

:CAUTHE SIGsCAUTHE ExecNZWIL Steering GroupDiscipline PodsAUT Crèche Committee

AUT Ignite leadershipMentoring

Appreciate context (and how it changes)

Digital disruption

Tertiary landscape

Role of institutions in civil society

ROI of qualifications

Work and society

Evolution of disciplines

Citizenship Advice

Know what you have to offer to teams, committees, departments, the wider university and beyond

Understand your motivations in the citizenship space

find new ones if you need to

Establish a strong narrative about your citizenship endeavours and collect evidence for what you deliver

Citizenship Advice (cont’d)

Show how your efforts here fit with your academic identity (mine = gender & advancement)

Be prepared to put your hand up and make connections outside of your silo

Try not to:

Over-reach (e.g. joining a whole lot of committees the year you want promotion)

Over-sell (claim to mentor a whole of people when really you are being collegial)

Fake it by

presenteeism

(what do you contribute?)

The early career phase: Citizenship considerations

Early career

is an important time, where you learn about the various parts of academic work you do, and in terms of how it provides you with:

Immense pride

Flow and enjoyment

Mere satisfaction

Tests of your resilience

‘Early career’ can vary by age, life stage, country, discipline,

etc

The mid career phase: Citizenship considerations

Mid career

– so, where does ‘mid career’ start and stop?

a time of consolidation; ‘finding your groove’; clear(

er

) on strengths and weaknesses are; more questioning, reflection, critique.

-learning to be selective (more directive) with service and OCB

*how to say ‘no’, but also still ‘yes’

-knowing your ‘why’

-more focused, less patience!

-job crafting (recrafting; recreating roles; a new professional identity?

Question: Citizenship considerations here?

Workshopping…with you

Key Questions (in groups…)How and why did you become an academic?

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) What organisational citizenship behaviours might you have done, or witnessed around you? How did it make you feel?

3) Where would you like to focus your service/OCB activities and how can you build a narrative about this?

4) How might organisational citizenship behaviours be valued in my School/Department/Institution? (formally or informally)