Me or We? The Role of Personality and Justice as Other-Centered Antecedents to Innovative Citizenship Behaviors Within Organizations

The present research takes an "other-centered" approach to examining personal and contextual antecedents of taking charge behavior in organizations. Largely consistent with the authors' hypotheses, regression analyses involving data collected from 2 diverse samples containing both cow...

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Published in:Journal of applied psychology 2008-01, Vol.93 (1), p.84-94
Main Authors: Moon, Henry, Kamdar, Dishan, Mayer, David M, Takeuchi, Riki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Adult
Behavioural psychology
Citizenship
Data analysis
Distributive justice
Female
Human
Humans
Individuality
Internal-External Control
Justice
Leadership
Male
Management Personnel
Organization
Organizational Behavior
Organizational citizenship behaviour
Organizational Culture
Organizational Innovation
Organizational Justice
Organizations
Other orientated values
Personality
Personality traits
Procedural justice
Professional Personnel
Regression analysis
Social Justice
Social Perception
Sociometric Techniques
Studies
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Summary:The present research takes an "other-centered" approach to examining personal and contextual antecedents of taking charge behavior in organizations. Largely consistent with the authors' hypotheses, regression analyses involving data collected from 2 diverse samples containing both coworkers and supervisors demonstrated that the other-centered trait, duty, was positively related to taking charge, whereas the self-centered trait, achievement striving, was negatively related to taking charge. In addition, the authors found that procedural justice at the organizational level was positively related to taking charge when evaluated by a coworker, while both procedural and distributive justice were positively related to taking charge when considered by a supervisor. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/0021-9010.93.1.84