Disobedience among Nigerian Army Personnel as a Function of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Citizenship Behaviour, Inequity Sensitivity and Mutiny Proneness

Abstract

Disobedience is not an act that is tolerated in military organisations, it is not what should be discussed in military circle, but military organisations like any other organisation is noy immune to human frails that pervades all other organisations, and so could be affected as well with variables associated with disobedience in other organisations. This study, using randomly selected 422 men and officers of randomly selected two divisions of Nigerian Army, investigated the predictive influence of Job satisfaction, organisational citizenship behaviour and inequity sensitivity, with mutiny proneness on disobedience tendency among military men and offices of Nigerian Army. It was observed that Job satisfaction alone do not predict tendency towards disobedience but did so in conjunction with other variables of interest. Mutiny proneness, acted as a mediating variable, increasing the tendency to act in disobedience. OCB and inequity also contributed singularly and in interaction with others to predict tendency to act disobediently among the men and officers of the army. It was therefore concluded that the authorities in charge should take these findings into consideration in administering the military in order to reduce the tendency of disobedience among the military men and officers to avert disorder and breakdown of laws and order in the organisation.