Prosocial employee behavior: The dynamics of purpose, public accountability and hypocrisy

IF 2.3 4区管理学 Q3 MANAGEMENT

Scandinavian Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-30 DOI:10.1016/j.scaman.2026.101473

Stewart Clegg, Miguel Pina e Cunha, Arménio Rego, Bobby Banerjee, António Cunha Meneses Abrantes

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Abstract

Tensions can exist between organizational deeds and narratives of purpose. Employees who perceive such inconsistencies may go public with the aim of fostering internal organizational change oriented towards aligning rhetoric and reality. In doing so, they engage in a distinct form of prosocial behavior not yet fully examined in existing literature: societal-oriented prosocial behavior (SOPB) This behavior may be initiated through multiple motivational pathways – identification-repair, moral conviction, hypocrisy-aversion, or strategic calculation – all sharing four defining attributes: (1) employees adopting an external, public stance on (2), a societal-relevant issue with the aim of (3), promoting internal organizational change aligning organizational actions that are consistent with prior statements of purpose, thereby (4) signaling both their allegiance to and dissent from organizational practice. This paper explores both the distinctiveness of these motivational pathways and the specific content of employee societal-oriented prosocial behaviors.

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亲社会员工行为：目的、公共责任和虚伪的动态

组织行为和目标叙述之间可能存在紧张关系。察觉到这种不一致的员工可能会公开，目的是促进内部组织变革，使言论和现实保持一致。在这样做的过程中，他们参与了一种独特的亲社会行为形式，这种行为在现有文献中尚未得到充分的研究：社会导向的亲社会行为（SOPB）。这种行为可能通过多种动机途径启动——认同-修复、道德信念、伪善-厌恶或战略计算——所有这些都有四个定义属性：(1)员工在(2)、与社会相关的问题上采取外部的、公开的立场，目的是(3)，促进组织内部变革，使组织行动与先前的目标声明一致，从而(4)表明他们对组织实践的忠诚和反对。本文探讨了这些激励途径的独特性以及员工社会导向亲社会行为的具体内容。

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Scandinavian Journal of Management MANAGEMENT-

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4.00

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71 days

期刊介绍： The Scandinavian Journal of Management (SJM) provides an international forum for innovative and carefully crafted research on different aspects of management. We promote dialogue and new thinking around theory and practice, based on conceptual creativity, reasoned reflexivity and contextual awareness. We have a passion for empirical inquiry. We promote constructive dialogue among researchers as well as between researchers and practitioners. We encourage new approaches to the study of management and we aim to foster new thinking around management theory and practice. We publish original empirical and theoretical material, which contributes to understanding management in private and public organizations. Full-length articles and book reviews form the core of the journal, but focused discussion-type texts (around 3.000-5.000 words), empirically or theoretically oriented, can also be considered for publication. The Scandinavian Journal of Management is open to different research approaches in terms of methodology and epistemology. We are open to different fields of management application, but narrow technical discussions relevant only to specific sub-fields will not be given priority.