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. 2022 May 3:15:1105-1119.
doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S321689. eCollection 2022.

Does Compulsory Citizenship Behavior Necessarily Reduce Employee's Work Well-Being? The Role of Relative Deprivation and Resource Compensation Based on Compulsory Citizenship Behavior

Qi He  1 , Jingtao Fu  2 , Wenhao Wu  3 , Sabeeh Pervaiz  4
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Does Compulsory Citizenship Behavior Necessarily Reduce Employee's Work Well-Being? The Role of Relative Deprivation and Resource Compensation Based on Compulsory Citizenship Behavior

Qi He et al. Psychol Res Behav Manag. .

Abstract

Purpose: On the basis of previous research results, the opinion that compulsory citizenship behavior (CCB) leads to negative impacts over employees and organizations prevails. However, the latest researches negate the absence of rewards and favorable evaluation from organizational system for CCB. Instead, CCB is likely to be awarded by incentive allocation and recognitive affirmation. In the case of the resource compensation based on CCB, will the expected utility of CCB still show the consistence with the traditional CCB researches, imposing negative effects over employees and organizations?

Methods: This research explored the mechanism and boundary condition based on self-determination theory (SDT) and relative deprivation theory (RDT) to avert the negative effects of CCB, hoping to explain the above question. Time-lagged survey data from 227 employees tested the moderated mediation model, and the results verified the hypotheses.

Results: With resource compensation after the delivery of CCB, employees will not feel relative deprivation caused by reluctant false citizenship behaviors. In addition, relative deprivation expresses the gap between expectation and reality, low psychological discrepancy will not deeply undermine employees' work well-being.

Keywords: CCB; relative deprivation; resource compensation based on CCB; work well-being.

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The authors report no conflicts of interest in relation to this work.

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