Brexit and Academic Citizenship

Productivity, Collaboration, and Citizenship in Academic Departments

Background: Junior faculty in academic departments must make two critical decisions. One is how to allocate their time and resources between departmental citizenship tasks and their research pursuits. Another is whether to pursue their research alone or in a group. Little is known how faculty make these decisions, or how departmental policies influence productivity, collaboration between facult...

teachers’ academic optimism and organizational citizenship behavior

background: academic optimism about teachers is a new construct. the objective of this study was investigation of primary school teachers' academic optimism and organizational citizenship behavior in shiraz city. methods: the method of this study was descriptive and correlational study. the population of this study were all teachers (men and women) working in the 1391-1392 school year in public...

Individual Citizenship Behavior: The Mediator between Teachers’ Academic Optimism and Students’ Academic Achievement

Individual Citizenship Behavior: The Mediator between Teachers’ Academic Optimism and Students’ Academic Achievement     H. Abbaasiyaan, Ph.D.* M. Rezaaveisi**   It is assumed that students’ academic achievement can improve if teachers’ academic optimism increases. However, this relationship seems to be mediated by individual citizenship behavior. Wi...

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Organizational Citizenship Behavior as a Predictor of Student Academic Achievement

This study employed social exchange theory to examine the connection between one of the elements of teaching strategies, that is, lecturers’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and students’ academic achievement. Student needs for achievement was used as moderator. Analysis was conducted on a survey data of 196 students in one of the local public institutions of higher learning. The resul...