Citizenship Behavior

What Does Organizational Tenure Really Buy You?

On August 18, 2010 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behaviors, Counter-Productive Work Behavior, Job Performance Publication: Journal of Management (SEP) Article: Organizational tenure and job performance Authors: T.W.H. Ng and D.C. Feldman Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger It is often intuited that employees who remain in an organization longer gain more knowledge of their job and the organization and thus perform at a higher level than employees

Categories : *Journal of Applied Psychology Citizenship Behavior FairnessTags : citizenship behavior fairness human resource management human resources industrial-organizational psychology organizational development organizational performance

Organizational Citizenship: more than a matter of “scratching backs

On May 28, 2010 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behavior, Fairness
Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (MAR 2010)
Article: Paying you back or paying me forward: Understanding rewarded and unrewarded organizational citizenship behavior
Authors: M.A. Korsgaard, B.M. Meglino, S.W. Lester, & S.S. Jeong
Reviewed By: Bobby Bullock

Categories : *Journal of Business and Psychology Citizenship Behavior Performance AppraisalTags : citizenship behavior human resource management human resources industrial-organizational psychology organizational development

Is it Fair to Include “Citizenship” in Performance Appraisals?

On March 1, 2010 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behavior, Performance Appraisal Publication: Journal of Business and Psychology (DEC 2009) Article: Organizational citizenship behavior in performance evaluations: Distributive justice or injustice Authors: S.K., Johnson, C.L. Holladay, & M.A. Quinones Reviewed By: Benjamin Granger Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs) are volitional work behaviors that go above and beyond the call of

Categories : Citizenship BehaviorTags : citizenship behavior human resource management human resources industrial-organizational psychology organizational development

Organizational Citizenship: Lend a Hand and Look Good Doing It

On February 17, 2010 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behavior Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (JUL 2009) Article: Good soldiers and good actors: Prosocial and impression management motives as interactive predictors of affiliative citizenship behaviors Authors: A. M. Grant, D. M. Mayer Reviewed By: Sarah Teague In recent years, organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) have received considerable attention

Categories : Citizenship Behavior Counter-Productive Work BehaviorTags : citizenship behavior Counter-Productive Work Behavior human resource management human resources industrial-organizational psychology organizational development stress

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Stress at Work

On January 27, 2010 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behavior, Counterproductive Work Behaviors Publication: Journal of Applied Psychology (NOV 2009) Article: Can “good” stressors spark “bad” behaviors? The mediating role of emotions in links of challenge and hindrance stressors with citizenship and counter productive behaviors Authors: J.B. Rodell, T.A. Judge Reviewed By: Katie Bachman Research suggests that stress

Categories : *Academy of Management Citizenship Behavior Workplace DevianceTags : citizenship behavior human resource management human resources industrial-organizational psychology organizational development workplace deviance

In the Mood for an OCB

On January 13, 2010 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behaviors, Workplace Deviance Publication: Academy of Management Journal (OCT 2009) Article: A within-person approach to work behavior and performance: Concurrent and lagged citizenship-counterproductivity associations, and dynamic relationships with affect and overall job performance. Authors: R.S. Dalal, H. Lam, H.M. Weiss, E.R. Welch, C.L. Hulin Reviewed By: Katie Bachman If

Categories : *CyberPsychology & Behavior Citizenship Behavior Counter-Productive Work BehaviorTags : citizenship behavior Counter-Productive Work Behavior

Tell Your Boss to Get Off the Web and Back to Work

On June 16, 2009 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship, Counter-Productive Work Behaior Publication: CyberPsychology & Behavior Article: On Cyberslacking: Workplace Status and Personal Internet Use at Work. Blogger: Lit Digger Does your boss check his personal email or read websites featuring non-work-related information (such as the news or online shopping) more often than you? It’s likely according to the findings of Garrett and Danziger (2008). By conducting a phone survey (n=1,024), these researchers found

Categories : *Human Performance Citizenship Behavior Job PerformanceTags : citizenship behavior job performance

Where leaving it to Beaver meets the bottom line

On June 1, 2009 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behavior, Job Performance Publication: Human Performance Article: Test of Motowidlo et al.’s (1997) theory of individual differences in task and contextual performance. Blogger: James Grand A helpful hand here or a thoughtful “hi-how-are-ya” might be more valuable than we think. Psychologists are starting to realize that such dispositional characteristics can be meaningful predictors of on-the-job performance. Nearly 10 years ago, Motowidlo, Borman and Schmit proposed that performance at work was

Categories : *Journal of Organizational Behavior Citizenship Behavior Organizational JusticeTags : citizenship behavior

Fostering Fairness in the Workplace: Why it’s so worth it!

On May 25, 2009 By I-O AT WORK

Topic: Citizenship Behavior, Organizational Justice Publication: Journal of Organizational Behavior Article: Meta-analytic tests of relationships between organizational justice and citizenship behavior: Testing agent-system and shared-variance models. Blogger: Benjamin Granger Leaders are recognizing that organizations, employees, and customers benefit from non-required cooperative behaviors that go on in the workplace. These behaviors are referred to as