The present study investigated factors influencing voluntary organization members' engaging in a specific extra-role behavior, participation in a telethon, on behalf of their organizations. Affective organizational commitment was hypothesized to mediate the relationship between intrinsic satisfaction and the voluntarism criterion, and organization purpose (service vs. non-service) and organization membership size were hypothesized to moderate the relationship between commitment and voluntarism. PROBIT regression analyses indicated that affective commitment explained the voluntarism effects of intrinsic satisfaction. The effect of commitment on voluntarism was found to occur only among service organizations. Although it did not moderate the effect of commitment, size was negatively related to voluntarism.
BATEMAN, T. S., & ORGAN, D. W.Job satisfaction and the good soldier: The relationship between affect and employee citizenship. Academy of Management Journal, 1983, 11, 710-725.
2.
BATEMAN, T. S., & STRASSER, S.A longitudinal analysis of the antecedents of organizational commitment. Academy of Management Journal, 1984, 27, 95-112.
3.
BRIEF, A. P., & MOTOWIDLO, S. J.Prosocial organizational behaviors. Academy of Management Review, 1986, 11, 710-725.
4.
COX, D. R.The analysis of binary data. London: Methuen & Co., 1970.
5.
DECI, E.Intrinsic motivation. New York: Plenum, 1975.
6.
FESTINGER, L., PEPITONE, A., & NEWCOMB, T.Some consequences of deindividuation in a group. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1952, 47, 382-389.
7.
LATANE, B., & NIDA, S.Ten years of research on group size and helping. Psychological Bulletin, 1981, 89, 308-324.
8.
MAHONEY, J., & KATZ, M.Value structures and orientations to social institutions. Journal of Psychology, 1976, 93, 203-211.
9.
MAHONEY, J., & PECHURA, C. M.Values and volunteers: Axiology of altruism in a crisis center. Psychological Reports, 1980, 47, 1007-1012.
10.
MEYER, J. P., & ALLEN, N. J.Testing the "side-bet theory" of organizational commitment: Some methodological considerations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1984, 69, 372-378.
11.
MEYER, J. P., PAUNONEN, S. V., GELLATLY, I. R., GOFFIN, R. D., & JACKSON, D. N.Organizational commitment and job performance: It's the nature of the commitment that counts. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1989, 74, 152-156.
12.
MOWDAY, R., PORTER, L., & STEERS, R.Organizational linkages: The psychology of commitment, absenteeism, and turnover. New York: Academic Press, 1982.
13.
NETER, J., WASSERMAN, W., & KUTNER, M. H.Applied linear statistical models. Homewood, Illinois: Irwin, 1985.
14.
O'REILLY, C., & CHATMAN, J.Organizational commitment and psychological attachment: The effects of compliance, identification, and internalization on prosocial behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1986, 71, 492-499.
15.
ORGAN, D. W.Organizational citizenship behavior: The good soldier syndrome. Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1988.
16.
ORGAN, D. W., & KONOVSKY, M.Cognitive vs. affective determinants of organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology, 189, 74, 157-164.
17.
PEARCE, J. L.Participation in voluntary associations: How membership in formal organizations changes the rewards of participation. In D. H. Smith and J. Van Til (Eds.), International perspectives on voluntary action research. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983.
18.
PEARCE, J. L.Job attitude and motivation differences between volunteers and employees from comparable organizations. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1983, 68, 646-652. (b)
19.
PORTER, L., CRAMPON, W., & SMITH, F.Organizational commitment and managerial turnover: A longitudinal study. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 1976, 15, 87-98.
20.
PUFFER, S. M.Prosocial behavior, noncompliant behavior, and work performance among commission salespeople. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1987, 72, 615-621.
21.
SCHWARTZ, S.Awareness of interpersonal consequences, responsibility denial, and voluntarism. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1974, 30, 57-63.
22.
SMITH, C. A., ORGAN, D. W., & NEAR, J. P.Organizational citizenship behavior: Its nature and antecedents. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1983, 68, 655-663.
STAW, B. M.Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Morristown, N.J.: General Learning Press, 1976.
25.
WICHIE, V., & ISENHOUR, L.Motivation of volunteers. Journal of Social Welfare, 1977, 4, 73-79.
26.
WILLIAMS, L. J., & HAZER, J. T.Antecedents and consequences of satisfaction and commitment in turnover models: A reanalysis using latent variable structural equation methods. Journal of Applied Psychology, 1986, 71, 219-231.
