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Taking a Multifoci Approach to the Study of Justice, Social Exchange, and Citizenship Behavior: The Target Similarity Model†

James J. Lavelle¹; Deborah E. Rupp²; Joel Brockner³

¹ Department of Management, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, · ² Department of Psychology and the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820 · ³ Management Division, Columbia University, Uris Hall, New York, NY 10025

An emerging trend within the organizational justice, social exchange, and organizational citizenship behavior literatures is that employees maintain distinct perceptions about, and direct different attitudes and behaviors toward, multiple foci such as the organization, supervisors, and coworkers. However, these multifoci developments have progressed, for the most part, independently of one another. Thus, to gain a more complete conceptualization of the employee experience, this review brings these respective literatures together. Specifically, the authors (a) review and organize multifoci research and theory in justice, social exchange, and citizenship behavior, (b) develop a “target similarity” model to provide a theoretical framework for conceptualizing and integrating multifoci research, and (c) o fer suggestions for future multifoci research.

DOI

10.1177/0149206307307635

Volume

33 (6)

Pages

841-866

Language

en

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