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Examining the role of perceived leader behavior on temporary employees' organizational commitment and citizenship behavior

✍ Scribed by Idriss J. A. Djibo; Katie P. Desiderio; Noriece M. Price

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 119 KB
Volume: 21
Category: Article
ISSN: 1044-8004
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.20049

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✦ Synopsis

The attention given to the contingent segment of the workforce has significantly increased over the past decade. Investigative topics include the correlates of temporary employee work attitudes and behaviors. This study used a correlational design to examine leader behaviors outlined by the path-goal theory of leadership, as perceived by temporary employees (N ϭ 126), as a determinant of their organizational commitment and citizenship behaviors. The results indicated that temporary workers' affective commitment was positively related to perceptions of instrumental and supportive leadership. The latter was also significantly related to the participants' organizational citizenship behavior. Implications for both research and practice are discussed.

Temporary work assignments used to consist of replacing missing unskilled or clerical workers in order to resolve immediate labor needs . Today, positions are created specifically for contingent staff to fill, and temporary workers are now found at all levels of organizations, from executives to switchboard operators, on assignments that last from a few hours to several months . The growth of the use of temporary labor is one of businesses' strategic reactions to the ever-increasing economic challenges and constant demand for more flexibility in their human resources management (HRM) strategies (e.g.,

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