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Teacher Gender as a Moderator of the On‐the‐Job Embeddedness–OCB Relationship 1
Author(s) -
LEV SMADAR,
KOSLOWSKY MENI
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00868.x
Subject(s) - psychology , moderation , organizational citizenship behavior , social psychology , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , context (archaeology) , job embeddedness , embeddedness , organizational commitment , sociology , anthropology , paleontology , biology
Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), a popular outcome measure in traditional work settings, was examined in a school context. On‐the‐job embeddedness (ONJE)—a component of a recently introduced antecedent of different organizational outcomes—and gender were included in a moderated regression analysis for predicting teacher OCB. ONJE and OCB scales were adapted for the present study and were administered to junior and senior high school teachers in Israel. The findings supported our hypotheses that ONJE predicts OCB and gender moderates this relationship such that high ONJE women scored higher on OCB than did low ONJE women. Men did not show any difference by ONJE level. The need for further research regarding other gendered occupations is discussed.