OCB-E among Chinese employees of different contract types
ISSN: 0142-5455
Article publication date: 24 March 2020
Issue publication date: 15 March 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Drawing on a motivational model of proactive behavior, this study theorizes that employment status, reflective moral attentiveness (RMA), and organization-based self-esteem (OBSE) constitute the can-do, reason-to, and energized-to motivational states, which interact to induce organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment (OCB-E).
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted random coefficient modeling (RCM) analysis with a multisource, time-lagged data set collected from 235 employees in Chinese firms.
Findings
This RCM analysis found that more OCB-E resulted from standard employees with higher levels of RMA and OBSE.
Originality/value
The value of this research lies in understanding of the antecedents of green behavior at the individual level by identifying specific motivational states and highlighting the coexistence of motivational states in predicting OCB-E. These findings provide new insight into the theory of developing and managing green OCB performers in today's workplace characterized by workforce mixing.
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Acknowledgements
Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.We wish to acknowledge the assistance of Jinhee Moon in data analysis.This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project No. 71872102.
Citation
Ren, S., Tang, G. and Kim, A. (2022), "OCB-E among Chinese employees of different contract types", Employee Relations, Vol. 44 No. 3, pp. 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-01-2019-0067
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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