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Behaviour of quantity surveyors as organizational citizens

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  • Anita Liu
  • Richard Fellows

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Understanding the individual's collectivistic orientations toward group goals and task activities is critical for developing cooperative and productive teams. The complex environment of modern construction, where the emphasis shifts from individually oriented to team-based work, has led to many challenges. There are important issues of cooperative behaviours in a world of cultural pluralism in which interpersonal cooperation is juxtaposed with organizational citizenship behaviour. Behaviours of construction project participants are important manifestations of culture that are dependent upon norms, values and beliefs. Certain organizational cultures support individualistic behaviours while others emphasize the benefits to the collective whole. Collectivistic orientation is examined as the cultural dimension of individualism-collectivism (IC) and found to be related to organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) where the correlations of IC and most OCB variables are significant for quantity surveyors in Hong Kong. Generally, the (more) individualistic persons are less likely to exhibit organizational citizenship behaviours.

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  • Anita Liu & Richard Fellows, 2008. "Behaviour of quantity surveyors as organizational citizens," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(12), pages 1271-1282.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:26:y:2008:i:12:p:1271-1282
    DOI: 10.1080/01446190802527530
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    1. Shaiful Annuar Khalid & Hassan Ali & Mohammad Ismail & Norshimah Abdul Rahman & Kamsol Mohamed Kassim & Rozihana Shekh Zain, 2009. "Organizational Citizenship Behavior Factor Structure among Employees in Hotel Industry," International Journal of Psychological Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 1(1), pages 1-16, June.
    2. Omar Rehman & Adil Mansoor & Muhammad Rafiq & Muhammad Rashid, 2011. "Training and Development, Leadership Style and Empowerment Practices as Determinants of Organization Citizenship Behavior in Corporate Sector of Developing Country Pakistan," Far East Journal of Psychology and Business, Far East Research Centre, vol. 4(2), pages 16-26, August.

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