Organizational citizenship behaviors in the era of changing employment patterns: The complementary roles of psychological contracts and protean and boundaryless careers

PurposeThe increasing flexibility and discontinuity of labor relations have been associated with the development of new forms of psychological contracts as well as the development of more self-directed and mobile career attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Career development international 2019-05, Vol.24 (2), p.127-145
Main Authors: Lo Presti, Alessandro, Manuti, Amelia, Briscoe, Jon P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Career development planning
Career Planning
Careers
Citizenship
Employees
Employers
Employment
Human resource management
Job Performance
Organizational behavior
Success
Work Attitudes
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:PurposeThe increasing flexibility and discontinuity of labor relations have been associated with the development of new forms of psychological contracts as well as the development of more self-directed and mobile career attitudes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the forms of psychological contract and protean/boundaryless career attitudes on the one hand and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) on the other.Design/methodology/approachIn total, 458 employees of three large Italian organizations were sampled through a self-report questionnaire. Zero-order correlations were carried out to examine the associations between study variables while dominance analysis, along with multiple linear regression, was used for evaluating their unique contribution with respect to OCB.FindingsOCB were positively predicted by relational and balanced psychological contracts, protean career attitude and boundaryless mindset.Practical implicationsOrganizations must pay particular attention to the content of the psychological contract and the career attitudes of their employees because they influence their willingness to carry out OCB.Originality/valueThe results add new evidence to the careers literature in terms of boundary conditions with regard to the effects of protean and boundaryless career attitudes as well as different forms of psychological contracts.
ISSN:1362-0436
1758-6003
DOI:10.1108/CDI-05-2018-0137