ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Why and When Do Good Soldiers Behave Unethically? Introducing Conservation of Resources Theory to Explain the Curvilinear Effects of Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
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- A validity and reliability study of the citizenship fatigue scale in a Turkish sample.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Does mental health limit organizational behavior, or not? A study drawn on resource conservation.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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- Research on the consequences of employees' unethical pro-organizational behavior: The moderating role of moral identity.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Previous research about organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB) has produced contradictory results. Drawing from the conservation of resources (COR) theory, the present study tries to explain the contradictory findings by examining the curvilinear relationship between OCB and CWB. Using data collected at three time points from 426 employees and 110 supervisors in Chinese companies, data analysis shows that OCB has an inverted U-shaped relationship with CWB. The results also demonstrate that citizenship fatigue mediates the relationship between OCB and CWB, perceived organizational support (POS) moderates the relationship between OCB and citizenship fatigue. In addition, POS moderates the mediating effect of citizenship fatigue in the inverted U-shaped curvilinear relationship between OCB and CWB. This mediating effect is stronger under conditions of low POS than high POS. The findings present a complementary explanation of the conflicting relationships between OCB and CWB.
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