A Social Contract Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior

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1999-04-15Author
D'Intino, Robert Stephen
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A predictive relationship is proposed between stronger communitarian normative ideological
values and beliefs regarding the political and economic social contract, and greater
amounts of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The theoretical foundation
supporting this relationship is based in management literature on organizational
cooperation, and political theory literature on individualist and communitarian ideological
orientation, which derives from the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and
Rousseau. Survey data from 315 organizational employees supported the study's proposal
that stronger communitarian ideological orientation had statistically significant and positive
direct and interaction effects predicting greater OCB performance.
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