Linking Perceived Organizational Support, Affective Commitment, and Knowledge Sharing with Prosocial Organizational Behavior of Altruism and Civic Virtue
Pilar Ficapal-Cusí,
Mihaela Enache-Zegheru and
Joan Torrent-Sellens (jtorrent@uoc.edu)
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Pilar Ficapal-Cusí: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and ICT Interdisciplinary Research Group (i2TIC), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Mihaela Enache-Zegheru: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and ICT Interdisciplinary Research Group (i2TIC), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 08035 Barcelona, Spain
Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 24, 1-20
Abstract:
The study of prosocial organizational behaviors has been receiving increasing attention, due to their relevant contribution to sustainable organizational and personal development. This research proposes and tests a model that tackles the factors that drive two unrewarding extra-role behaviors of individual or organizational citizenship, altruism, and civic virtue, and assesses multiple mediation relationships. The sample data are derived from a questionnaire survey of 1350 Spanish workers and were analyzed using partial least squares structural equations modelling. Research findings reflect the mediating role of knowledge sharing behavior in the relationship between affective commitment and altruism. Moreover, a significant relationship was found between affective commitment and civic virtue, which is stronger under the mediating role of knowledge sharing behavior. Finally, affective commitment plays a mediating role in the relationship between perceived organizational support and knowledge sharing behavior. Implications for sustainable human resource management, practical interventions, and future research recommendations are provided.
Keywords: prosocial organizational behavior; organizational citizenship behavior; altruism; civic virtue; knowledge sharing; affective organizational commitment; perceived organizational support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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