Revisiting family motivation from the actor versus observer perspectives

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2023-02-22

Meng, Liang Li, Dandan

Abstract：

The construct of family motivation has promoted the progress of work motivation research to a large extent and provided a new perspective for insights into employees’ work behaviors. However, existing research mainly focuses on the prosocial nature of family motivation, while ignored its work motivation nature. Therefore, from a work motivation perspective, this study proposes that family motivation has two independent dimensions (i.e., level and internalization) and focuses on the effect of family motivation on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) and its subsequent interpersonal influences. This study first examines how family motivation predicts employees’ OCBs from the actor perspective, and then explores observers’ (i.e., interviewers’) overall perception of applicants with varied family motivation in job interviews and how observers (i.e., leaders) attribute and react to OCBs performed by employees with varied family motivation from the observer perspective. Taking both the actor and observer perspectives, this research attempts to gain a comprehensive insight into the work motivation nature of family motivation, its impact on employees’ extra-role work behaviors and to provide guidance for managerial practices.

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