Diferencias de género en conducta prosocialel comportamiento de ciudadanía organizacional

  1. Dávila de León, María Celeste
  2. Finkelstein, Marcia A.
  3. Castien Maestro, Juan Ignacio
Journal:
Anales de psicología

ISSN: 0212-9728,  1695-2294

Year of publication: 2011

Volume: 27

Issue: 2

Pages: 498-506

Type: Article

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Abstract

Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) are workplace activities that exceed an employee�s formal job requirements and contrib-ute to the effective functioning of the organization. The behaviors may be directed toward co-workers or the organization itself. The purpose of this study is analyzes the gender differences in OCB following functional analysis and role identity theory. A total of 974 employees completed surveys measuring OCB motives, strength of organizational citizen role identity, and amount of OCB. The results showed that females do OCB aimed at individuals with more frequency, give more importance to proso-cial values motive (desire to help others and to be accepted by them) and have a greater role identity like organizational citizen that help to work-mates than males. When we analyze the predictive role of motives and role identity, we didn�t find relevant differences between females and males. The findings are discussed with regard to diverse theories.

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