Organizational public value and employee life satisfaction: the mediating roles of work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior |
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| Authors: | Timo Meynhardt Steven A Brieger Carolin Hermann |
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| Institution: | 1. Dr. Arend Oetker Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership, HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Leipzig, Germany;2. Center for Leadership and Values in Society, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerlandtimo.meynhardt@hhl.de;4. Center for Leadership and Values in Society, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland;5. Institute of Management &6. Organization, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | AbstractBuilding on Meynhardt’s public value concept, which has been developed to make transparent an organization’s contributions to the common good, we investigate the influence of organizational common good practices in the perceptions of employees (measured as public value) on employees’ work attitudes and life satisfaction. The proposed model is tested on a sample of 1045 Swiss employees taken from the 2015 Swiss Public Value Atlas data-set. Study findings reveal that organizational public value is positively related to employee life satisfaction, and that this relationship is partially mediated by work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. Further, we show that employee common good orientations strengthen the positive impact of organizational public value on employee work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. Results also provide evidence that the indirect effects of organizational public value on employee life satisfaction via work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior are stronger at higher employee common good orientation levels. |
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| Keywords: | Public value life satisfaction work engagement organizational citizenship behavior CSR common good social performance |
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