Title
Good Soldiers and Good Actors: Prosocial and Impression Management Motives as Interactive Predictors of Affiliative Citizenship Behaviors
Abbreviated Journal Title
J. Appl. Psychol.
Keywords
organizational citizenship behavior; prosocial motives; impression; management motives; affiliative citizenship; challenging citizenship; RATIONAL SELF-INTEREST; EXTRA-ROLE BEHAVIORS; ORGANIZATIONAL-BEHAVIOR; CONTEXTUAL PERFORMANCE; ROLE-IDENTITY; DISPOSITIONAL PREDICTORS; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; COEFFICIENT-ALPHA; SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGY; TASK-PERFORMANCE; Psychology, Applied; Management
Abstract
Researchers have discovered inconsistent relationships between prosocial motives and citizenship behaviors. We draw on impression management theory to propose that impression management motives strengthen the association between prosocial motives and affiliative citizenship by encouraging employees to express citizenship in ways that both "do good" and "look good." We report 2 studies that examine the interactions of prosocial and impression management motives as predictors of affiliative citizenship using multisource data from 2 different field samples. Across the 2 studies, we find positive interactions between prosocial and impression management motives as predictors of affiliative citizenship behaviors directed toward other people (helping and courtesy) and the organization (initiative). Study 2 also shows that only prosocial motives predict voice-a challenging citizenship behavior. Our results suggest that employees who are both good soldiers and good actors are most likely to emerge as good citizens in promoting the status quo.
Journal Title
Journal of Applied Psychology
Volume
94
Issue/Number
4
Publication Date
1-1-2009
Document Type
Review
DOI Link
Language
English
First Page
900
Last Page
912
WOS Identifier
ISSN
0021-9010
Recommended Citation
"Good Soldiers and Good Actors: Prosocial and Impression Management Motives as Interactive Predictors of Affiliative Citizenship Behaviors" (2009). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 1586.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/1586
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