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Importance of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour for Overall Performance Evaluation: Comparing the Role of Task Interdependence in China and the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Daniel G. Bachrach ,
Hui Wang ,
Elliot Bendoly  and
Shuoyang Zhang
Daniel G. Bachrach
Affiliation:
University of Alabama, USA
Hui Wang
Affiliation:
Peking University, China
Elliot Bendoly
Affiliation:
Emory University, USA
Shuoyang Zhang
Affiliation:
Indiana University, USA
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Abstract

In a cross-cultural experiment, we examined how task interdependence influences the importance of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in employee performance evaluations in China and the USA. A total of 150 graduate students in China and 154 in the USA (a total of 304), who serve as evaluators, participated in the experiment. Participants were exposed to a task interdependence manipulation and then rated the importance of OCB in their overall performance evaluations of employees. Results support the moderating effects of national culture (both using a country proxy and as a measure of collectivism) on the affects of task interdependence. Although among evaluators from the USA perceptions of the importance of OCB increased as task interdependence increased, the effects of task interdependence were significandy attenuated among evaluators from China. Implications of these results for research and practice are discussed.

Keywords

collectivismcross-cultural testorganizational citizenship behaviouroverall performance evaluationperformance attributionstask interdependence组织公民行为任务相互依赖性集体主义绩效归因总体绩效评估跨文化研究测量实验研究
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Management and Organization Review , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 2007 , pp. 255 - 276
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Copyright © International Association for Chinese Management Research 2007

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