ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOUR, HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA: A QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

Abstract

The general objective of this study is to examine the nature of the linkages between organizational citizenship behaviour, human capital formation and national development in a typical developing nation. The focus of the study is the Nigerian national public-private sector setting. Self-evident national development has seemingly become an optical illusion in this national structure, otherwise
clearly rich in natural and human resources trajectories. The theoretical framework of the study is the systems theory. The study is principally framed on the hypothesis that the nexus between organizational citizenship behaviour and human capital formation in Nigeria has led to developmental retardation in the case study country. Deploying the qualitative research methodology, relying on secondary sources of data and the research motif of logical argumentation, findings of the study led us to the conclusion of plausibility in the hypothesis of the work. We found a critical need to reverse the trend of monumental sleaze, which militates against resolute human capital formation in the Nigerian public sector and the negative trend in organizational citizenship behaviour in the nationwide system. The study recommends further unrelenting substantial privatization of the traditionally deficient entities, where nothing material against the strategic interests of the state would dictate against such massive privatization