Abstract. Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory, we propose that abusive supervision increases stress responses in targets, which, turn, diminishes their ability to perform extra- and in-role work behaviors. However, based COR argue followers who are driven by low rather than high organizational concern motives place less value the social context which technical activities occur. As...

This article examines the relationship among perceived organizational support, affective organizational commitment, and employee citizenship behavior in Kuwaiti business organizations. Employees’ affective organizational commitment is proposed to mediate the relationship between perceived organizational support and employee citizenship behavior. Data were collected from 261 employees affiliated...

Having a word on the tip of our tongue is a mundane and slightly annoying experience. And yet, as Brown’s article helps us see, the theoretical implications of a TOT experience range very widely. The study of TOTs may also turn out to be useful for larger methodological reasons. Here, too, Brown recognizes that the investigation of TOTs offers an especially good example of convergent cognitive ...

Principles of Citizenship Education Based on Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy M. Khezri Aghdam S.M. Sajjaadi, Ph.D. A. Manoochehri, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh Ghamsari, Ph.D. Citizenship education, like education in general, has its philosophical foundations, and curriculum planners need to be familiar with these philosophies in order to do their job well. Among such philos...

Reconsidering the concept of digital citizenship and the essential component of education the authors propose that the concept of Hybrid Education may serve both as a guideline for the utilization of digital technologies in education and as a methodology for fostering new forms of participation, inclusion and engagement in society. Following T.H. Marshall’s conception of citizenship the authors...

Sustainable consumption is gaining in currency as a new environmental policy objective. This paper presents new research findings from a mixed-method empirical study of a local organic food network to interrogate the theories of both sustainable consumption and ecological citizenship. It describes a mainstream policy model of sustainable consumption, and contrasts this with an alternative model...

Citizenship behavior within a virtual community has been recognized as an essential component for a community’s sustainable success. However, studies have not fully understood and given only limited attention to the factors that foster members’ prosocial behavior. The major objective of this study is the empirical investigation of the critical antecedents of citizenship behavior in virtual comm...

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is a newly emerging concept in the literature of organization behavior. Despite an increasing number of studies on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), no unifying work is focused on the measurement of degree of change in OCB in a public sector organization and a private sector organization. We hypothesized that there is a significant difference i...

BACKGROUND Validation of the psychometric properties of a new measure of citizenship was required for a research project in the province of Quebec, Canada. This study was meant to study the interplay between recovery- and citizenship-oriented supportive employment. As recovery and citizenship were expected to be two related concepts, convergent validity between the Citizenship Measure (CM) and ...

Investigating associations between personality and reproductive fitness may reveal the adaptive significance of human behavioural traits. What we dub ‘solid-citizenship’ personality characteristics such as self-control, diligence and responsibility may repay study from an evolutionary perspective as they protect against negative life-outcomes. We explored associations between reproductive fitne...