Tezana Bekele 
Investigating the effect of perceived organizational support on organizational citizenship 

Master’s Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Art – Arts Management, grade: very good, Arba Minch University (Arba Minch university), language: English, abstract: This research aims to investigate the effect of perceived organizational support on employee organizational citizenship behavior in the case of academic staffs of Arba Minch University. For the sake of achieving the objectives of this study, the information gathered through questionnaire from 282 respondents were analyzed using statistical analysis. The respondents were selected using stratified sampling followed by a simple random sampling technique. The most important findings of this study is that perceived organizational support has a positive and significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Results revealed that there is a significant difference between male and female academic staffs towards exhibiting organizational citizenship behavior and insignificance difference found on dimensions of perceived organizational support. Moreover, there is a significant difference in the perception of supervisory support, procedural justice, career development opportunities, decision-making involvement and exhibition of organizational citizenship behavior based on education level.

The result of the Pearson correlation coefficient analysis showed that perceived organizational support dimensions have a significant and positive relationship with organizational citizenship behavior. The results of multiple linear regression showed that the best predictor of organizational citizenship behavior had been supervisory support. Based on findings, recommendations to Arba Minch university management and suggestions for other researchers are forwarded.

Keywords; perceived organizational support, organizational citizenship behavior