英文摘要 |
"Introduction: This study examined the moderating effect of job autonomy on the relationship between psychological flexibility at work and organizational citizenship behavior in the sports service industry. Drawing on acceptance and commitment therapy, we proposed a potential antecedent that might trigger frontline service employees’organizational citizenship behavior, namely, psychological flexibility at work. In addition, based on trait activation theory, we further investigated the moderating effect of job autonomy on the relationship between psychological flexibility at work and organizational citizenship behavior. Methods: We collected participants from 12 public sports centers in Taipei, Taiwan. A total of 192 workers provided complete data for this study. Frontline service employees completed questionnaires measuring psychological flexibility at work, job autonomy, and organizational citizenship behavior at Time 1 and organizational citizenship behavior at Time 2. Descriptive statistics, Pearson's product-deviation correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis were used to test the hypotheses. Results: The results indicated that psychological flexibility at work was positively associated with Time 1 organizational citizenship behavior and Time 2 organizational citizenship behavior. We found a significant interaction indicating that job autonomy strengthened the relationship between psychological flexibility at work and organizational citizenship behavior over time. Specifically, when psychologically flexible frontline service employees perceive higher job autonomy at work, they tend to exhibit more organizational citizenship behavior over time. Conclusion: Job autonomy enhances our knowledge of when the effect of psychological flexibility at work is strengthened. More specifically, in the sports service industry, job autonomy interacts with frontline service employees' psychological flexibility, which influences their organizational citizenship behavior. Accordingly, a human resource manager in the sports service industry can try to recruit individuals with psychological flexibility at work through the psychological flexibility measurement or build individuals’psychological flexibility at work to benefit the organization by bringing higher effectiveness. Moreover, service managers could create suitable work environments to activate frontline service employees' tendencies to exhibit more organizational citizenship behavior." |