TY - JOUR

T1 - Organizational public value and employee life satisfaction

T2 - the mediating roles of work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior

AU - Meynhardt, Timo

AU - Brieger, Steven A.

AU - Hermann, Carolin

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Building on Meynhardt’s public value concept, which has been developed to make transparent an organization’s contributions to the common good, we investigate the influence of organizational common good practices in the perceptions of employees (measured as public value) on employees’ work attitudes and life satisfaction. The proposed model is tested on a sample of 1045 Swiss employees taken from the 2015 Swiss Public Value Atlas data-set. Study findings reveal that organizational public value is positively related to employee life satisfaction, and that this relationship is partially mediated by work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. Further, we show that employee common good orientations strengthen the positive impact of organizational public value on employee work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. Results also provide evidence that the indirect effects of organizational public value on employee life satisfaction via work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior are stronger at higher employee common good orientation levels.

AB - Building on Meynhardt’s public value concept, which has been developed to make transparent an organization’s contributions to the common good, we investigate the influence of organizational common good practices in the perceptions of employees (measured as public value) on employees’ work attitudes and life satisfaction. The proposed model is tested on a sample of 1045 Swiss employees taken from the 2015 Swiss Public Value Atlas data-set. Study findings reveal that organizational public value is positively related to employee life satisfaction, and that this relationship is partially mediated by work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. Further, we show that employee common good orientations strengthen the positive impact of organizational public value on employee work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior. Results also provide evidence that the indirect effects of organizational public value on employee life satisfaction via work engagement and organizational citizenship behavior are stronger at higher employee common good orientation levels.

KW - common good

KW - CSR

KW - life satisfaction

KW - organizational citizenship behavior

KW - Public value

KW - social performance

KW - work engagement

KW - Management studies

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040998207&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/09585192.2017.1416653

DO - 10.1080/09585192.2017.1416653

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85040998207

VL - 31

SP - 1560

EP - 1593

JO - The International Journal of Human Resource Management

JF - The International Journal of Human Resource Management

SN - 0958-5192

IS - 12

ER -