The virtuous cycle of prosocial behaviour and perceived prosocial impact in organizations: a longitudinal three-wave study

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dc.coverageDOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2024.2322774
dc.creatorGómez, Marcos
dc.creatorEspejo, Álvaro
dc.creatorMartela, Frank
dc.creatorBastías, Catalina
dc.creatorBravo, Diego
dc.creatorUnanue, Wencesalo
dc.date2024
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-18T19:49:41Z
dc.date.available2025-11-18T19:49:41Z
dc.description<p>This study aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamics of prosociality in organizations by examining how organizational citizenship behaviour relates to perceived prosocial impact. First, we propose that a sense of prosocial impact is a rewarding experience that could motivate employees to engage in more prosocial behaviour over time, thus predicting increased OCB. Second, organizational citizenship behaviour can be directed towards other individuals (OCBI) or towards the organization (OCBO), with partly different antecedents and consequences. We propose that engaging in OCBI is prone to increase perceived prosocial impact as there the helping is aimed at concrete individuals, while engaging in OCBO, in being more indirectly prosocial, is either a weaker or non-existent predictor of future perceived prosocial impact. Using longitudinal data collected in three waves (N1 = 631, N2 = 240, and N3 = 148), we found that OCBI (but no OCBO), prospectively predicts perceptions of prosocial impact. Additionally, we find evidence for perceptions of prosocial impact prospectively predicting both subsequent OCBI and subsequent OCBO. As such, our research shows a virtuous cycle of prosociality between individually focused prosocial behaviours at work and perceived prosocial impact at work, which has theoretical and practical implications for both employee well-being and motivation as well as the performance of organizations.</p>eng
dc.identifierhttps://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/bf1b4a6f-9686-427f-a608-286b2fc62607
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uandes.cl/handle/uandes/56210
dc.languageeng
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.sourcevol.33 (2024) date: 2024-03-07 nr.4 p.462-473
dc.subjectOrganizational citizenship behaviours
dc.subjectindividual-directed OCB
dc.subjectorganizational-directed OCB
dc.subjectperceived prosocial impact
dc.subjectprosocial behaviour
dc.titleThe virtuous cycle of prosocial behaviour and perceived prosocial impact in organizations: a longitudinal three-wave studyeng
dc.typeArticleeng
dc.typeArtículospa
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