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Does Human Potentiality Affect IT Professionals’ Organizational Behavior? An Experimental Study in Poland and Germany

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The goal of our paper is to examine if human potentiality (HP) affects IT professionals’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in relation to Poland (transition economy) and Germany (developed economy). For the goal of the study the authors elaborated two novel questionnaires: the Human Potentiality Inventory (HPI) and adapted Employee Behavior Questionnaire (EBQ). We investigated seven dimensions of the HP and two dimensions of the OCB. We collected necessary data by random interpersonal network and sequence sampling. We also applied the passive optimal experiment design, conducted among IT professionals, in Germany and Poland. Our findings confirmed the effects of nationality and association between HP and OCB among IT professionals, in Germany and Poland. The novelty of the study is the cross cultural approach, experimental passive design and recognition of association between human potentiality and organizational citizenship behavior.

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  1. University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jolanta Kowal & Alicja Keplinger

  2. Hochschule Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany

    Juho Mäkiö

  3. University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Ralph Sonntag

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Kowal, J., Keplinger, A., Mäkiö, J., Sonntag, R. (2016). Does Human Potentiality Affect IT Professionals’ Organizational Behavior? An Experimental Study in Poland and Germany. In: Wrycza, S. (eds) Information Systems: Development, Research, Applications, Education. SIGSAND/PLAIS 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46642-2_13

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