A Meta-Analysis of the Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior.
verifiedrich profile · Journal of Applied Psychology · 2005
Dalal, Reeshad S.
How this was studied
A meta-analytic synthesis — it pools many primary studies rather than running a single design, so there is no single-study diagram.
What this article reports
The findings we extracted from this work, normalized into Principia’s relationship form (X → Y). Each feeds the synthesized models below.
organizational citizenship behavior ocb → counterproductive work behaviours
Models this article informs
The meta-analytic priors this article contributes evidence to — its place in the broader synthesis.
helping behavior predicts counterproductive work behaviours
organizational citizenship behavior ocb correlates counterproductive work behaviours
In the authors’ words
The article’s own abstract.
Job performance is increasingly being seen to encompass constructs such as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and counterproductive work behavior (CWB). To clarify the OCB-CWB relationship, a meta-analysis was conducted. Results indicate a modest negative relationship (p = -0.32). The relationship strength did not increase appreciably when the target of the behavior (the organization vs. other employees) was the same. Moreover, OCB and CWB exhibited somewhat distinct patterns of relationships with antecedents. The OCB-CWB relationship was moderated by the source of the ratings, the presence of antithetical items, and the type of response options. An employee-centric perspective is proposed whereby both OCB and CWB are perceived as adaptive behavior. Implications for organizations are discussed.
What the literature says about it
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disputes “Empirical studies (Cummings, Poropat, Loxton, & Sheeran, 2017; Sackett, Berry, Wiemann, & Laczo, 2006) and meta-analyses (Dalal, 2005) reveal the independence of counterproductive behavior in relation to citizenship behavior, treating it as a characteristic of the individual that also has the ability to modify the university environment and negatively influence the organizational results and context.”
disputes “[30], Morrison started from the concept of rule-breaking—conceptualized as a deviant or counterproductive workplace behavior deriving from employee hostility [31], social exclusion [32] or job dissatisfaction [33]—and defined PSRB as “any instance where an employee intentionally violates a formal organizational policy, regulation, or prohibition with the primary intention of promoting the welfare of the organization or one of its stakeholders” [29] (p.”
supports “…some scholars propose that performance can exhibit counterproductive facets (Campbell and Wiernik, 2015), meta-analysis unveils only a moderate relationship between OCB and counterproductive work behavior and reveals somewhat disparate relationship patterns with their antecedents (Dalal, 2005).”
disputes “Empirical studies (Cummings, Poropat, Loxton, & Sheeran, 2017; Sackett, Berry, Wiemann, & Laczo, 2006) and meta-analyses (Dalal, 2005) reveal the independence of counterproductive behavior in relation to citizenship behavior, treating it as a characteristic of the individual that also has the ability to modify the university environment and negatively influence the organizational results and context.”
disputes “[30], Morrison started from the concept of rule-breaking—conceptualized as a deviant or counterproductive workplace behavior deriving from employee hostility [31], social exclusion [32] or job dissatisfaction [33]—and defined PSRB as “any instance where an employee intentionally violates a formal organizational policy, regulation, or prohibition with the primary intention of promoting the welfare of the organization or one of its stakeholders” [29] (p.”
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