Impact of SMET yoga program on organisational citizenship behaviour positive affectivity negative affectivity and occupational stress of employees

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) is a newly emerging concept newlinein the stream of organizational behavior. In today s global competitive world, any and every newlineorganization wants to have excellent employees those who do not only work hard but also newlinedisplay discretionary behaviours, positive traits, good interpersonal relationship, supportive newlineteam work, self-motivation to collectively achieve organizational goals and success. Despite newlinean increasing number of studies on OCB, not many unifying works are focused on the newlineimprovement of the same. Here we also study about two most important personality traits newlinenamely Positive affectivity and Negative affectivity of employees in an organisation. newlineAIMS and OBJECTIVES: This study seeks to investigate the impact of Self-Management of newlineExcessive Tension yoga program on Organisational Citizenship Behaviour, Positive and newlineNegative affectivity and Occupational stress (OS) of the employees. newlineMETHODS: newlineParticipants: A sample of 240 employees consisting of both male and female, working for a newlineBPO office in Bengaluru, India belonging to an age group of 20-45 years participated in the newlinestudy. newlineDesign: It is a randomised two group (yoga and control group), intervention study with pre and newlinepost assessments. newlineAssessment: Organisational Citizenship Behaviour scale, Positive and Negative Affectivity newlineSchedule (PANAS) scale and Occupational Stress Index (OSI) scale were used to administer newlinethe study parameters. Data was analysed by using SPSS software version 25.0. newlineIntervention: Self-Management of Excessive Tension module practice is given to employees newlineas Intervention. newlineResults: A considerable increase in mean values (difference in pre and post data) were newlineobserved after SMET intervention for various dimensions of OCB, PANAS and OS. The results newlinewere found to be significant with p lt 0.05. newlineConclusions: Study showed that SMET helped to improve OCB and to reduce the occupational newlinestress of the employees. Study also proved that SMET helped to increase Positive affectivity newlineand