Employee Collective Orientation and Job Performance: A Meta-Analytic Integration

Katharina Agethen ()
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Katharina Agethen: Paderborn University & OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts

No 172, Working Papers Dissertations from Paderborn University, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

Abstract: Managers often assume that collectively oriented employees perform well in organizations, yet prior meta-analyses have yielded inconsistent findings regarding the relationship between employee collective orientation and job performance. This study addresses these inconsistencies through an updated and comprehensive meta-analysis of 128 articles, comprising 144 samples and 390 effect sizes. Specifically, I examine how different conceptualizations and measures of collective orientation (global vs. work context-specific and unidimensional vs. multidimensional) as well as different performance types (general, in-role, and extra-role) moderate the relationship between collective orientation and job performance. Employing a three-level meta-analytic approach, the results reveal that collective orientation, overall, is positively related to job performance (r̅ = .17). Contrary to my expectations, global collective orientation (r̅ = .18) shows a stronger relationship with performance than work context-specific collective orientation (r̅ = .13), challenging prevailing assumptions about the need for context-specific measures. Multidimensional measures (r̅ = .21) further outperform unidimensional ones (r̅ = .14). Among the types of performance, collective orientation is most strongly associated with extra-role performance (r̅ = .19) compared to general (r̅ = .09) and in-role performance (r̅ = .08). These findings clarify long-standing inconsistencies in the literature and offer theoretical and practical implications. In particular, they inform human resource management practices related to employee selection and performance evaluation.

Keywords: collective orientation; collectivism; team orientation; job performance; meta-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 84
Date: 2026-03
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