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Does organization-based self-esteem mediate the relationships between on-the-job embeddedness and job behaviors?

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Based on cognitive consistency theory, this study developed a motivation mechanism linking on-the-job embeddedness to employees’ job behaviors. This mechanism was tested using a sample of 170 subordinate-supervisor dyads. HLM analysis results revealed that organization-based self-esteem fully mediated the influence of on-the-job embeddedness on job performance and organizational citizenship behavior-altruism and partially mediated on-the-job embeddedness’s influence on innovative behavior. However, organization-based self-esteem did not mediate the relationship between on-the-job embeddedness and organizational citizenship behavior-voice. Implications are discussed.

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Liao, PY., Collins, B.J., Chen, SY. et al. Does organization-based self-esteem mediate the relationships between on-the-job embeddedness and job behaviors?. Curr Psychol 42, 9839–9851 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02284-4

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