Organizational Citizenship Behavior Motives and Thriving at Work: The Mediating Role of Citizenship Fatigue

Yang Qiu, Ming Lou, Li Zhang and Yiqin Wang
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Yang Qiu: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Ming Lou: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Li Zhang: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Yiqin Wang: School of Management, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-17

Abstract: Employees can affect the sustainability of organizations, yet the different effects of employee organizational citizenship behavior motives on employee thriving at work, as elements of organization sustainability, are not clear. Based on self-determination theory and conservation of resource theory, this study examined whether organizational concern motives and impression management motives behind employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors are differently associated with their citizenship fatigue and their subsequent thriving at work, and whether task performance moderates these relationships. Results from a multi-wave and multisource study using a sample of 349 employees show that organizational concern motives had a positive indirect effect on thriving at work through reducing employees’ citizenship fatigue, while impression management motives will undermine thriving at work through inducing citizenship fatigue. This study further found that task performance strengthened the positive relationship between impression management motives and citizenship fatigue. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

Keywords: organizational citizenship behavior motives; task performance; citizenship fatigue; thriving at work; organization sustainability (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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