Interpersonal citizenship behaviors: the role of passion for work in helping behaviors towards coworkers

Autor: François-Albert Laurent, Nathalie Houlfort, Katherine Malchelosse
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Current Psychology. 42:9466-9484
ISSN: 1936-4733
1046-1310
Popis: Interpersonal citizenship behaviors (ICB) act as social glue and facilitate processes in the everchanging and fast paced rhythm of today’s work context. They also have the potential to spark an upward spiral of positivity, vigor, connectedness and reciprocity that would be beneficial to any organization. Research on its antecedents is therefore needed. Two studies were conducted using cross-sectional designs and structural equation modeling to examine the role of obsessive (OP) and harmonious (HP) passion for work (Dualistic model of passion; Vallerand et al., 2003) as antecedents of Task (T-ICB) and Person (P-ICB) focused interpersonal citizenship behaviors (Settoon & Mossholder, 2002), as well as potential contextual, motivational and relational mediators and moderators affecting this role. Results show that HP is positively correlated to both types of ICB via the influence of relationship quality (Study 1 and 2), while OP only has a direct positive relationship with T-ICB (Study 1). Our results extend current knowledge on the Dualistic model of passion by demonstrating that obsessive passion can lead to positive work-related outcomes by facilitating specific helping behaviors at work. These findings shed new light on how and why passionate workers may help their coworkers, and how obsessive and harmonious passion differ in accomplishing this.
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