Exploring the Effect of Different Performance Appraisal Purposes on Miners’ Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Mediating Role of Organization Identification

Hui Lu, Ailing Yue, Yu Han and Hong Chen
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Hui Lu: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Da Xue Road 1, Xuzhou 221116, China
Ailing Yue: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Da Xue Road 1, Xuzhou 221116, China
Yu Han: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Da Xue Road 1, Xuzhou 221116, China
Hong Chen: School of Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Da Xue Road 1, Xuzhou 221116, China

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-16

Abstract: This study theorized and examined the effect of performance appraisal purposes on miners’ organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) via organizational identification. Survey data from 700 miners in state-owned Chinese coal mine enterprises were analyzed using multiple regression and bootstrap sampling. Results indicated that both developmental purpose of the performance appraisal and evaluative purpose of the performance appraisal had positive effects on overall OCB and its four dimensions via organizational identification. Furthermore, developmental purpose of the performance appraisal had a stronger relationship with overall OCB and its four dimensions than evaluative purpose of the performance appraisal. This study provides practical guidance to assist Chinese and even Asian coal mining enterprises in deciding how to motivate miners’ OCB through improving a performance appraisal system and how to strengthen miners’ organizational identification.

Keywords: organizational citizenship behavior; performance appraisal purposes; organizational identification; coal mine enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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