Relationship between Motivations and Citizenship Performance among Generation X and Generation Y

This empirical paper has examined the motivational factors subtracted from Herzberg’s Two-Factors Theory towards Citizenship Performance for employees categorized into Generation X and Generation Y. A sample of 124 respondents from two market leading electric and electronic manufacturing companies in Malaysia 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 that combine all causations as one unit of variable. Findings of this study have presented the directions of motivational factors towards Citizenship Performance for Generation X and Generation Y.