The Impact of Change-oriented Organizational Citizenship Behavior on Employee Time Theft: An Exploration of Positive and Negative Influence

Jiawei Wang¹, Wentao Fan^1,2 

(1. Dhurakij Pundit University, Thailand; 2. The University of Bangkok, Thailand)

Abstract: This paper mainly analyzes the impact of change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior on employee time theft behavior, explores the moderating effect from psychological entitlement and authentic leadership style. First of all, by consulting the relevant research literature, determine the preliminary direction of this research. Then define and select the variables, and put forward hypotheses. After establishing the model, design the questionnaire according to the actual situation of this study, adopt the mature scale of scholars’ research and practical data analysis methods. A total of 215 valid questionnaires were recovered in this paper, the research results show that when employees’ change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior is high, it will increase employees’ psychological safety and weaken employees’ time theft behavior, but it will not affect employees’ psychological entitlement. Authentic leadership strengthens the effect of psychological safety on employees’ time theft behavior, thereby further reducing employees’ time theft behavior, but psychological entitlement does not have a moderating effect.

Key words: change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior, psychological safety, psychological entitlement, authentic leadership, employee time theft

JEL code: D2, J2, M1, J24