Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between employee engagement and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in Cement industry in Egyptian culture. Now days most of organizations give increase importance to employee engagement and employees’ satisfaction survey, all that because of the noticeable positive effects when applied. One of the most important consequences is the improving of citizenship behavior in the organizations. So we are trying to investigate the relationship between Employee engagement as independent construct and OCB as a dependent construct in a private cement company in Egypt. A sample of 350 employees is planned to be used supported by HR group of the Titan cement company in Egypt through using paper and pencil survey which designed to measure the vigor, dedication, and absorption as an Employee engagement dimensions, and to measure conscientiousness, altruism, courtesy, sportsmanship, and civic virtue as OCB dimensions without testing any mediating or moderating roles for other construct. Findings suggest that Employee engagement has a direct significant positive relationship between employee engagement and OCB for employees working in cement industry in Egypt. So, the final results of this study is to be ready and able to start collecting data and analyze it to find this relationship and to figure out if there are any differences between the literature results of other industries and cultures, and our results when applying in specifically cement employees and specially in Egypt culture.
Keywords: Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Engagement, Satisfaction.
Title: The Relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Employee Engagement in Cement Industry in Egypt
Author: Osama Mohamed Zedan Abd-Allah
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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