Organisational citizenship behaviours: Their influences on mineworkers’ turnover intention

Abstract

We investigated organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) influences on employee turnover intention in a mining organisation. The participants were 371 mining employees (men = 74%; women = 26%; mean age = 37.2 years, SD = 8.21 years). The employees completed standardised OCB and the turnover intention scales. Logistic regression analysis findings indicated altruism and courtesy behaviours to predict higher turnover intention. Civic virtue and conscientiousness predicted lower intention to leave. These findings suggest altruism and courtesy predispositions differ from those for civic duty and conscientiousness in the mining industry context and in ways important to human resource management in that sector.