Motivational Orientations and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Moderator Role of Perceived Discrimination in the Brexit Context

Samuel Fernández-Salinero San Martín; Gabriela Topa Cantisano

doi:10.3390/bs9030031

Motivational Orientations and Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: The Moderator Role of Perceived Discrimination in the Brexit Context

Behav Sci (Basel). 2019 Mar 20;9(3):31. doi: 10.3390/bs9030031.

Authors

Samuel Fernández-Salinero San Martín^{1

2}, Gabriela Topa Cantisano³

Affiliations

¹ Medicine and Surgery, Psychology, Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Madrid, Spain. samuelfssm@gmail.com.
² Social and Organizational Psychology Department, The National Distance Education University, 28015 Madrid, Spain. samuelfssm@gmail.com.
³ Social and Organizational Psychology Department, The National Distance Education University, 28015 Madrid, Spain. gtopa@psi.uned.es.

Abstract

The current study aims to explain how motivational orientations influence organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) through organizational identification considering the moderator effect of perceived discrimination. A sample of 286 Spanish immigrants in the United Kingdom was included. Main conclusions support that learning orientation shows a significant direct relation with OCB. Both performance and performance-avoid goal orientation have a statistically significant impact on OCB, and this impact is mediated by organizational identification and moderated by perceived discrimination. The practical implications of the study and its possible limitations are discussed.

Keywords: citizenship behavior; learning orientation; motivational orientations; organizational identification; perceived discrimination; performance goal orientation; performance-avoid goal orientation.