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Lack of reciprocity, organizational citizenship behaviors and citizenship fatigue: A tale of two theories

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Resumo:Existing findings on the effects of OCB suggest two contradictory views between OCB and citizenship fatigue: the inertial view, that advocates that OCB leads to more OCB, and the dissipative view that advocates that OCB will end up in too much OCB thus leading to citizenship fatigue. Likewise lack of reciprocity has been intrinsically related with these concepts but not yet empirically tested. Hence this study is set to explore these relations taking OCB and lack of reciprocity as predictors of citizenship fatigue. With a sample of 343 workers, findings show divergent relations between two of OCB dimensions (helping behaviour and personal initiative) thus offering support to both inertial and dissipative view of OCB effects on its own permanence across time. Also, lack of reciprocity was found to be a relevant positive predictor of citizenship fatigue. Results suggest the existence of a more complex relation between OCB and citizenship fatigue than usually stated as well as a central construct of "lack of reciprocity" that subsumes many of current variables expressed as social exchange, psychological contract breach or similar.
Autores principais:Narciso, Cátia Dimas
Assunto:Citizenship fatigue Lack of reciprocity Organizational citizenship behavior Gestão de recursos humanos Cultura organizacional Cidadania organizacional Relações do trabalho Relações interpessoais Reciprocidade
Ano:2017
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:dissertação de mestrado
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:ISCTE
Idioma:inglês
Origem:Repositório ISCTE
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Resumo:Existing findings on the effects of OCB suggest two contradictory views between OCB and citizenship fatigue: the inertial view, that advocates that OCB leads to more OCB, and the dissipative view that advocates that OCB will end up in too much OCB thus leading to citizenship fatigue. Likewise lack of reciprocity has been intrinsically related with these concepts but not yet empirically tested. Hence this study is set to explore these relations taking OCB and lack of reciprocity as predictors of citizenship fatigue. With a sample of 343 workers, findings show divergent relations between two of OCB dimensions (helping behaviour and personal initiative) thus offering support to both inertial and dissipative view of OCB effects on its own permanence across time. Also, lack of reciprocity was found to be a relevant positive predictor of citizenship fatigue. Results suggest the existence of a more complex relation between OCB and citizenship fatigue than usually stated as well as a central construct of "lack of reciprocity" that subsumes many of current variables expressed as social exchange, psychological contract breach or similar.