TY - JOUR
T1 - Employment security and employee organizational citizenship behavior
T2 - does an ‘iron rice bowl’ make a difference?
AU - Liu, Xiaolang
AU - Huang, Qihai
AU - Wang, Hongli
AU - Liu, Shanshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation [grant number 71702157], [grant number 71772067], [grant number 71402057]; the Foundation by Southwest University of Science and Technology [grant number 16sx7107] the Guangdong Province Natural Science Foundation [grant number 2014A030313255], and the central university key project of basic scientific research business expenses [grant number 2015ZDXM03]; Guangzhou philosophy and social science planning project [grant number 2017GZYB35]; Guangzhou soft science Foundation [grant number 20158131530035].
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© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/7/20
Y1 - 2019/7/20
N2 - Empirical evidence linking employment security to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is equivocal. Limited research has considered the effect of employment status. Using data from 217 subordinate–supervisor dyads in a large state-owned enterprise in China as basis, our research found significant association between overall perceived employment security and employee OCB. However, this relationship may vary depending on employment status. Further analysis suggested a curvilinear relationship for permanent employees with an ‘iron rice bowl’ (lifetime employment) and a linear relationship for contractual employees without an ‘iron rice bowl’. Our study contributes to a thorough understanding of the relationship between employment security and positive behaviors in terms of OCB by integrating the literature on social exchange, psychological contract, and proactive behavior.
AB - Empirical evidence linking employment security to organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is equivocal. Limited research has considered the effect of employment status. Using data from 217 subordinate–supervisor dyads in a large state-owned enterprise in China as basis, our research found significant association between overall perceived employment security and employee OCB. However, this relationship may vary depending on employment status. Further analysis suggested a curvilinear relationship for permanent employees with an ‘iron rice bowl’ (lifetime employment) and a linear relationship for contractual employees without an ‘iron rice bowl’. Our study contributes to a thorough understanding of the relationship between employment security and positive behaviors in terms of OCB by integrating the literature on social exchange, psychological contract, and proactive behavior.
KW - Contract employee
KW - Employment security
KW - Employment status
KW - Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)
KW - Permanent employee
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U2 - 10.1080/09585192.2017.1381859
DO - 10.1080/09585192.2017.1381859
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85030699471
VL - 30
SP - 2077
EP - 2096
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
SN - 0958-5192
IS - 13
ER -
