Duties Owed to Organizational Citizens – Ethical Insights for Today’s Leader
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been widely recognized as a contributor to improving organizational performance and wealth creation. The purpose of this article is to briefly summarize the motives of many employees who exercise OCB and to identify the ethical duties owed by organizatio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2011
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Journal of business ethics
Year: 2011, Volume: 102, Issue: 3, Pages: 343-356 |
| Further subjects: | B
Social Contract
B ethical duties of leaders and managers B ethical duties of employees B Organizational Citizenship Behavior |
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| Summary: | Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has been widely recognized as a contributor to improving organizational performance and wealth creation. The purpose of this article is to briefly summarize the motives of many employees who exercise OCB and to identify the ethical duties owed by organizational leaders to the highly committed employees with whom they work. After reviewing the nature of OCB and the psychological contracts made with highly committed employees, we then use Hosmer’s framework of ten ethical perspectives to identify how OCB is viewed from each of those ethical viewpoints. We offer six propositions about OCB that relate to building employee commitment and trust. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Reference: | Errata "Erratum to: Duties Owed to Organizational Citizens – Ethical Insights for Today’s Leader (2011)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0819-8 |