Disentangling role perceptions: How perceived role breadth, discretion, instrumentality, and efficacy relate to helping and taking charge.
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The objective of this study was to empirically disentangle role perceptions related to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) that have been confounded in past research, investigate their unique relationships with both an affiliative (helping) and a challenging (taking charge) form of OCB, and determine their relative importance in explaining these 2 forms of OCB. The authors also examined whether role discretion and role breadth independently moderate the procedural justice-to-OCB relationship. The authors surveyed 225 engineers in India and their direct supervisors. The results showed that 3 of the 4 facets of OCB role perception explain unique variance in either helping or taking charge, and that role breadth moderates the relationships between procedural justice and both helping and taking charge. The authors discuss implications of these findings for OCB theory and research, as well as for managerial practice.
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- Authors
- McAllister, D. J., Kamdar, D., Morrison, E. W., & Turban, D. B.
- Affiliations
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- Indian School of Business (IN)
- New York University (US)
- University of Missouri (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Published
- 2007
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1200-1211
- ISSN
- 0021-9010 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1854
- OpenAlex
- W2138368525
- Cited by
- 318
- References
- 79
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- FWCI
- 16.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Applied Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Eprints Services at ISB (DESI) (Indian School of Business) (submittedVersion)
- National University of Singapore (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Employee Performance and Management
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Keywords
- organizational citizenship behavior, role perception, instrumentality, perceived efficacy, helping behavior, taking charge, procedural justice, engineers
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Female, Helping Behavior, Humans, Leadership, Male, Role, Social Perception, Self Efficacy
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