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Same Behavior, Different Consequences: Reactions To Men's And Women's Compulsory Citizenship Behaviors, Makishi Nobuko Jan 2012

Same Behavior, Different Consequences: Reactions To Men's And Women's Compulsory Citizenship Behaviors, Makishi Nobuko

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The objective of this current study was to investigate how job evaluations were changed based on a performer's gender, especially when a performer engaged in compulsory pro-social behaviors under undesirable pressure from others. Gadot (2006) named this type of behavior as Compulsory Citizenship Behavior (CCBs). Gadot (2007) mentioned that employees are forced to perform Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs). The present study used a 2 (gender) x 2 (voluntary nature of behavior: OCBs or CCBs) x 2 (type of behavior: altruistic or civic) mixed between-within-subjects methodology. Participants were randomly assigned to view different types of imaginary employees, which would vary in …