The Bright Side of Being Prosocial at Work, and the Dark Side, Too: A Review and Agenda for Research on Other-Oriented Motives, Behavior, and Impact in Organizations

By M. Bolino, Adam M. Grant. 2016

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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How Does Workplace Helping Behavior Step Up or Slack Off? Integrating Enrichment-Based and Depletion-Based Perspectives (2018, background): “…research suggests that organizational support, social exchange relationships, and job attitudes are critical correlates of OCB (Bolino et al., 2015; Bolino & Grant, 2016; Ilies, Fulmer, Spitzmuller, & Johnson, 2009; Ilies, Nahrgang, & Morgeson, 2007; Liao, Yang, Wang, Drown, & Shi, 2013; Organ &…”
Motivational mechanisms of employee creativity: A meta-analytic examination and theoretical extension of the creativity literature (2016, background): “In the workplace, external leadership influence has been identified as the most robust source of employee prosocial motivation and behavior (Bolino & Grant, 2016).”
When corporate social responsibility motivates employee citizenship behavior: The sensitizing role of task significance (2018, background): “This is consistent with theoretical work on prosocial motivation suggesting that prosocial motivation can be a state (Bolino & Grant, 2016; Grant, 2008).”
Relational job crafting: Exploring the role of employee motives with a weekly diary study (2018, background): “This could be owing to the resource draining and energy depleting role associated with high prosocial motives (Grant and Bolino, 2016).”
A social mindfulness approach to understanding experienced customer mistreatment: A within-person field experiment (2017, background): “…motivation shapes how they 1 Consistent with recent research, our theorizing does not assume that being other-oriented (e.g., showing concern for customers) precludes the possibility of self-interest (e.g., protecting employees’ own well-being) (e.g., Bolino & Grant, 2016; Grant & Berry, 2011).”
From job crafting to home crafting: A daily diary study among six European countries (2020, background): “It might be, for example, that when individuals feel pressured to job craft it expends rather than expands their resources to do so at home (Grant and Bolino, 2016), which would warrant further exploration.”
Feeling capable and valued: A prosocial perspective on the link between empathy and social entrepreneurial intentions (2018, background): “First, we heed recent calls for entrepreneurship studies to build on insights from prosocial motives research (Bolino and Grant, 2016; Renko, 2013; Shepherd, 2015), and consider that SE intentions may be driven not only by agentic motives of self-efficacy, but also by communal motives of social…”