#3401. Unpacking the Relationship Between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior: Moral Licensing and Temporal Focus

October 2026publication date
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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management;
Applied Psychology;
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Abstract:
Scientific- and practitioner-oriented publications tend to categorize employees in groups of either “good” or “bad” employees, thereby omitting that one category of employees might engage in organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB-O) and counterproductive work behaviour (CWB-O). The scholars argue that when employees enact OCB-O, they obtain moral credits and credentials, which in turn might make employees more likely to enact CWB-O. Moreover, we argue that the latter relationships depend on an employee’s subjective temporal focus: (1) positive for a past temporal focus, (2) negative for a future temporal focus, and (3) non-significant for a present temporal focus. We examined these hypotheses by means of a multilevel weekly survey study and largely found support for our hypotheses.
Keywords:
counterproductive work behavior; moral licensing; organizational citizenship behavior; temporal focus

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