We develop and test a model that relates leadership behaviors, organizational commitment, and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). We test the model using structural equations with a sample of 116 doctors from Uruguay. Consistent with expectations, our results show that transactional leadership behaviors increase followers’ continuance commitment and decrease their growth commitment, wh...

Masculinity contest culture encourages fierce competition and race for status at all costs. Across three experiments (Ntotal = 554), we investigated how masculinity affects discretionary performance work (i.e., organizational citizenship behaviors). Compared to an alternative feminine nurturing culture), participants in the condition reported lower levels of behaviors toward organization its me...

Among relevant consequences of organizational socialization, a key factor is the promotion of organizational citizenship behaviors toward individuals (i.e. OCBI). However, the relation between organizational socialization and OCBI has received little attention. This study tests the validity of a moderated mediation model in which we examine the mediating effect of a decreased interpersonal stra...

one of the high citation researches surrounding model of transformational leadership's impact on organizational citizenship behavior has been conducted by podsakoff, mackenzie, moorman and fetter (1990). using structural equation modeling, current study aims at testing this model and also 4 other models in schools on a sample including 652 teachers and 131 principals. results showed that p...

Although mentoring has documented relationships with employee attitudes and outcomes of interest to organizations, neither the causal direction nor boundary conditions of the relationship between mentoring and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) has been fully explored. On the basis of Social Learning Theory (SLT; Bandura, 1977, 1986), we predicted that mentoring received by supervisors...

In this article, the authors develop a definition of positive deviance, a foundational construct in positive organizational scholarship. They offer a normative definition of positive deviance: intentional behaviors that depart from the norms of a referent group in honorable ways. The authors contrast this normative perspective on deviance with statistical, supraconformity, and reactive perspect...

During the two recent decades, researchers of organizational behavior have paid special attention to extra-social behavior in organizations, and there has been specific focus on employees' affairs which are developed beyond formal job demands. Globalization era has created increased inter-individual mutual dependencies among organizations and groups. Thus, it has made more need for extra-social...

The present study is aimed to examine the mediating effect of psychological capital in the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. Data has been collected from a sample of 350 employees from multimedia organizations operating in Malaysia through personally administered questionnaires. The mediation effect has been tested using structural equation mod...