Abstract
The extant research posits a curvilinear relationship between organizational tenure and various facets of job performance. So far, theoretical explanations about curvilinearity have been inconclusive and ambiguous. The study draws from literature on organizational commitment to present an additional psychoeconomic explanation for curvilinearity. Further, it brings together work design and conservation resource models to investigate moderation effects of motivational job characteristics on organizational tenure -job performance relationship. Based on a longitudinal field study at two time periods using a sample (T1: n=721; T2: n=679) of employees in 19 job profiles from 13 different public sector organizations, the present study found a curvilinear relationship between organizational tenure and contextual performance. Interestingly data did not reveal curvilinearity in organizational tenure -task performance relationship. However, the data supported moderation effects of motivational job characteristics on...
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