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- Title
Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Gender: Expectations and Attributions for Performance.
- Authors
Farrell, Sara K.; Finkelstein, Lisa M.
- Abstract
Recent research suggests that women are more likely to participate in the helping dimension of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) whereas men are more likely to participate in the civic virtue dimension. Three laboratory studies were conducted to test the hypotheses that observers expect employees to participate in gender-congruent OCBs and that, when exhibited, observers are more likely to attribute gender-incongruent OCBs than gender-congruent OCBs to impression management motives. Results indicated that OCBs in general were expected more of women than of men. Only under specific conditions were OCB-civic virtue behaviors expected more of men. Additionally, participants were more likely to attribute men's OCB than women's OCB to impression management motives. Implications and future research suggestions are discussed.
- Publication
North American Journal of Psychology, 2007, Vol 9, Issue 1, p81
- ISSN
1527-7143
- Publication type
Academic Journal