Antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior among Turkish white-collar employees in The Netherlands and Turkey

Nevra Cem Ersoy*, Eva Derous, Marise Ph Born, Henk T. van der Molen

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Abstract

This study examined antecedents of organizational citizenship behavior (i.e., reward for application; religiosity beliefs and employees' relational identification with their supervisor) among Turkish white-collar employees in The Netherlands (n= 103) and Turkey (n= 147). OCB related positively to reward for application (both samples) but not to religiosity beliefs among Turkish employees in their home country (Turkey). As expected, relational identification with the supervisor was less strongly related to organizational citizenship behavior among Turkish white-collar employees in their host country (The Netherlands) compared to their home country (Turkey), especially when they resided longer in their host country. Giving increasing globalization and war for talent, findings are relevant to better understand effects of white-collar migrants' cultural background and acculturation patterns in work-related domains, like OCB.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)68-79
Number of pages12
JournalInternational Journal of Intercultural Relations
Volume49
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Organizational citizenship behavior
  • Relational identification with the supervisor
  • Social axioms
  • The Netherlands
  • Turkey

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