Rural-urban Migrants' Psychological Empowerment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: The Moderating Effects of Social Networks

Abstract

This paper analyzes the relationship between rural urban migrants' psychological empowerment (PE) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), and moderating effects of work discussion networks. These results show that: 1) PE's meaning sub-dimension has positive effects on identification with the company, altruism, conscientiousness sub-dimensions of OCB, PE's competence sub-dimension has positive effects on all 5 sub-dimensions of OCB, PE's self-determination sub dimension has negative effect on identification with the company sub-dimensions of OCB, PE's impact sub-dimension has positive effects on identification with the company, conscientiousness sub dimensions of OCB, but has negative effect on OCB's interpersonal harmony sub-dimension, on the whole, PE has positive effect on OCB. 2) rural-urban migrants' work discussion networks overall don't moderate the relationship between PE and OCB, while proportion of leaders in work discussion networks positively moderate relationships between PE's impact sub-dimension and OCB's altruism toward colleagues, conscientiousness, interpersonal harmony sub-dimensions.