Humayun Sattar

The main objective of this study is to investigate the mediating effects of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), destructive deviant behaviors (DDB), constructive deviant behaviors (CDB), and workaholism (WA) in the relationship between work ethic (WE) and the productivity of engineering students. Another objective is to present a comprehensive holistic model of relationships of these organizational behaviors (OB), attitudes, and work ethic with the productivity. Structure equation modeling (SEM) and Hayes’ processes are used to analyze the hypothesized model. Data were randomly collected from 400 participants from the universities of Pakistan. The overall assessment of the model showed that WE indirectly effects productivity through mediating variables (OCB, DDB, CDB, WA). One of the implications of this finding is that education practitioners/planners should promote work ethic (considered essential for sustainable management practices by contemporary researchers also) among engineering students. This ethic will be reflected in students’ behaviors (enhanced positive behaviors/attitudes, i.e., OCB, CDB, and WA, and reduced negative behaviors i.e., DDB) which will in turn improve their productivity. The originality of this research lies in it being the first to explore the indirect effect of Islamic work ethic (IWE) on individuals’ productivity through OCB, DDB, CDB, and WA.

This study explores the relationships between Islamic Work Ethics (IWE), workaholism (WA) and positive and negative Organizational Behaviors (OBs) amongst Engineering Students. Most of the researchers have studied OBs and ethics among faculty or administrative staff in universities. Study of these behaviors among students is a novel area of research. This study proposes an integrated framework of Islamic Work Ethics (IWE), Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), Constructive and Destructive Deviant Behaviors, and workaholism (WA) with the productivity (CGPA) of engineering students and empirically investigates the relationship between productivity, behaviors and ethics and moderating effect of IWE on the relationship of OCB and productivity of engineering students using Preacher and Hayes Technique. This research makes a number of significant contributions: (1) organizational behaviors are explored among engineering students which were previously studied among faculty members/employees only (2) a model of behaviors, ethics, WA and productivity is prepared using hierarchical regression which was not available in literature. The findings and implications are discussed along with future research guidelines. The findings here are important for practitioners and scholars for better understanding of relationship of OBs, WA and ethics with the productivity of engineering students in order to enhance their productivity through promotion of desired behaviors amongst them.