Employees Satisfactions and Citizenship Performance among Generation X and Y

Abstract:

This study examines the relationship between Herzberg’s Two Factors Theory and Citizenship Performance for generation X and generation Y employees. A sample of 124 respondents from two multinational electronic manufacturing companies was invited into this research. Seven Motivation and Hygiene Factors that adduced in this research are Achievement, Recognition, Work Itself, Promotion, Company Policy and Administration, Pay and Benefit, and Work Condition; while Citizenship Performance is measured by 15 items scale of Organization Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) that combine all causations as one unit of variable. The study revealed the differences in satisfactions on Motivational and Hygiene factors among generation X and generation Y respondents’ and their levels of Citizenship Performance. It further concluded with correlations between Motivational and Hygiene factors towards Citizenship Performance for the two selected generations.