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Giving Commitment: Employee Support Programs and The Prosocial Sensemaking Process
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Researchers have assumed that employee support programs cultivate affective organizational commitment by enabling employees to receive support. Using multimethod data from a Fortune 500 retail company, we propose that these programs also strengthen commitment by enabling employees to give support. We find that giving strengthens affective organizational commitment through a “prosocial sensemaking” process in which employees interpret personal and company actions and identities as caring. We discuss theoretical implications for organizational programs, commitment, sensemaking and identity, and citizenship behaviors.
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- Authors
- Grant, A. M., Dutton, J. E., & Rosso, B. D.
- Venue
- Academy of Management Journal
- Publisher
- Academy of Management
- Published
- 2008-10
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 898-918
- ISSN
- 0001-4273 (ISSN-L)
- 1948-0989
- OpenAlex
- W2117181340
- Cited by
- 555
- References
- 13
- FWCI
- 29.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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