Journal of Organization and Human Behaviour https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb <div id="i-scholarabout">Journal of Organisations and Human Behaviour (JOHB) is a multi disciplinary journal which publishes articles in fields of interest to people who research, teach and apply organisational studies from a human behavioural perspective. The journal brings together researchers and practitioners, both within and outside India, who are in the areas of organization management, change and development, and Human behaviour. This journal covers all private, public and not-for-profit organizations’ conceptual organisational framework in relation to human behaviour. It publishes three sections of articles in each issue. The first section focuses on original, empirical research based papers .The second section stresses upon conceptual /theoretical articles and research reviews about multiple disciplines linking organisations with human aspects of behaviour. The third section includes articles about the applications of organisations and human behaviour analysis in organisational/institutional settings and that have corporate managers/CEOs as an intended audience.</div> en-US publishing@publishingindia.com (Dr. Parul Rishi) info@publishingindia.com (Manager, Publishing India Group) Wed, 07 Sep 2022 10:53:42 +0000 OJS 2.4.2.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Understanding Organisational Commitment and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour in Context of Work From Home Virtual Leadership During Covid-19 - Pandemic in India https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214824 The COVID-19 induced lockdown had forced the organisations to adopt work from home (WFH) , putting virtual leadership to test. The article aims to explore the employee’s ability to learn and adapt to a new work environment at home through organisational citizenship behaviour and organisational commitment influenced by virtual leadership. Organisational Commitment Scale (OCS) was used using the Likert scale (5 points) with virtual leadership contribution, and employee commitment as variables in conducting virtual duties. The findings revealed that the transformational leadership in the virtual work environment pattern shows that employee’s willingness, individually and in teams, require reward to influence behaviour. OCB was found to be task-based as active and passive leadership management coupled with charismatic leadership was found to influence change in employee behaviour, overcome challenges, and show allegiance to leadership inputs during virtual work processes and methods. The results indicated that commitment from employees is conditional in the work from home (WFH) context, while the role of leadership abilities to influence OCB is dependent on culture, willingness and readiness. It is backed by leadership coaching and training for easier employee transition towards a work environment that is an individual and team level commitment output shaped by forces of psychosocial needs. Ashutosh Verma https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214824 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Determinants of Happiness in India: Time Series Ordered Probit Estimation of Subjective Well-being https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214837 Attaining the highest level of happiness is the utmost concern of individuals as well as the nations and the whole human society. Individuals feel happiness can be achieved by acquiring income and material perquisites. Though wealth and happiness are positively correlated within a society at a given point of time, in the long run, increasing the income of all in a country may not raise the happiness of all. This lack of a systematic long-run relationship between income and happiness is often due to social comparison, in which individuals evaluate their life satisfaction relative to others’ income. Using the WVS data for eight states of India for the period 1990–2006, this paper examines whether individuals’ happiness or life satisfaction is influenced by their absolute income or by relative income. The estimated ordered probit results show that relative income matters more than individual absolute income for the happiness of individuals. An improvement in the income rank of an individual relative to the reference group will increase the individual happiness level. The results are consistent with the Easterlin paradox that social comparison explains the nill income-happiness relationship in the long run and only relative income/position matters for happiness more than absolute income. T. Lakshmanasamy https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214837 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 A Systematic Study to Investigate Stress and Stress-coping Strategies Among Nurses in India https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214844 This is a systematic study of the literature among nurses in India regarding stress and stress-coping strategies. A search for studies published in English between 2009 and 2020 was conducted on the Microsoft Academics, Google Scholar, and ProQuest databases. A total of 1784 articles were retrieved and 21 articles were identified as per inclusion criteria for final review. This paper concludes that Indian nurses experience moderate to high stress. Some of the major stress-related factors identified through this study were workload, inadequate resources, low salaries, doctors’ attitude, posting in busy departments, family-work conflict, and patient death. Indian nurses commonly use positive appraisal, problem-solving, and social support as strategies to handle stress. In some cases, positive thinking and taking professional guidance were also used to cope with stress. The present systematic analysis takes into account the quantitative and qualitative studies related to stress and its coping strategies conducted among nurses in India. Shivani Sharma, Parul Saxena https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214844 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Role Conflict in Single- and Dual-earner Couples and Its Relationship With Gender Ideology and Gender Role Swapping https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214848 In the recent past, society has confronted a vivid transformation in the roles and responsibilities of men and women in the workplace and home. The study aimed to assess the role conflict in single- and dual-earner couples and its relationship with gender ideology and gender role swapping. Participants for this research included 48 single-earning couples and 46 dual-earning couples from Agra city. Thus, the total sample consisted of 188 adults between the age range of 25–45 years. Self-constructed tools like Gender Ideology Questionnaire (GIQ), Gender Role Swapping Questionnaire (GRSQ), and Role Conflict Questionnaire (RCQ) were used to get the required data. Results showed that the level of role conflict was high in dual-earning families and especially females were more found in the category of a high level of role conflict than males. The couples who were involved in gender role swapping showed a low level of role conflict and couples having egalitarian gender ideology showed a high level of role conflict. Thus, the perception of gender ideology is not helping in reducing role conflict but it is the actual gender-role swapping, which was found negatively correlated with role conflict. Neha Saxena, Ankit Saxena https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214848 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Organisational Csr Practices: a Strategic Lever Towards Harnessing Higher Employee Engagement https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214850 Employee engagement is a well-researched concept of human resource management and evolved as a key organisational strategic focus area. Many researchers have supported the vital role of employee engagement in achieving high-performance levels and superior business results for the organisation. In the present highly complex and fast-changing business environment, developing an actively engaged workforce is key to the survival and continuity of business enterprises. Corporate social responsibility (CSR), on the other hand, is rapidly changing from a mere set of corporate initiatives for fulfiling societal obligation. CSR presently revolves around concepts like corporate citizenship, corporate sustainability, strategic philanthropy, and doing business responsibly. Due to the dynamic behaviour and the multi-faceted association of organisations with society and its stakeholders, the nature of CSR is more complex. CSR has evolved as an essential tool in the direction of fostering an emotional and cognitive connection of the employees with the organisation, and deriving positive and sustainable organisational performance. This is more prominent, particularly for the younger employees. Organisational CSR initiatives positively impact employee engagement, which in turn can reduce costs due to increased employee retention as well as improved reputation in the eyes of employees. By integrating CSR and employee engagement into their business strategy, organisations can derive substantial benefits towards achieving positive and sustainable organisational performance. This paper explores the various dimensions of CSR in shaping employees’ attitudes and behaviour, and its connection with employee engagement towards superior organisational performance. It focuses on CSR as a significant contributing factor or lever towards harnessing employee engagement. Partha Sarathi Basu https://www.i-scholar.in/index.php/johb/article/view/214850 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000