Understanding daily citizenship behaviors: A social comparison perspective
研究从社会比较视角，结合情感事件和公正世界理论，探讨员工日常组织公民行为的动态变化，发现社会比较通过积极情感影响行为，且公正世界信念起调节作用。
Abstract Research that has sought to understand why employees engage in organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) has concentrated on between‐person variables, typically ignoring intraindividual influences. Accordingly, we know much about who engages in OCB, in general, but know relatively little regarding under what circumstances people engage in OCB. By integrating social comparison with affective events and just‐world theories, we propose and test a dynamic model wherein directional social comparisons are expected to have direct (automatic‐motivational) and indirect (affective) intraindividual effects on OCB. The hypotheses were tested using multilevel modeling on 1076 observations from 99 participants that were collected via an interval‐contingent experience sampling methodology. The results provide support for the hypotheses that social comparisons are related to OCB through positive affect and the direct effects of social comparisons on OCB are moderated by beliefs in a just world. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.