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A Social Contract Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Abstract

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A predictive relationship is proposed between stronger communitarian normative ideological values and beliefs regarding the political and economic social contract, and greater amounts of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The theoretical foundation supporting this relationship is based in management literature on organizational cooperation, and political theory literature on individualist and communitarian ideological orientation, which derives from the social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Survey data from 315 organizational employees supported the study's proposal that stronger communitarian ideological orientation had statistically significant and positive direct and interaction effects predicting greater OCB performance.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph. D.
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Management
Department dc:contributor.department
Management
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
1999

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • D'Intino, Robert Stephen
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Shepard, Jon M.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Stephens, Carroll U.
  • Smith, Wanda J.
  • Christman, John P.
  • Bishop, James W.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
etd-042099-174000
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/27075

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citation

D'Intino, Robert Stephen. A Social Contract Perspective on Organizational Citizenship Behavior. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27075