Examining OCB Motive Profiles and Links to the “Dark Side” of OCB in Working Adults

Although motivation is an important component of organizational behavior, work on the underlying motives of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) has produced inconsistent and limited findings concerning the interrelatedness of OCB motives. The present effort had several objectives. First, we explored motives driving OCB and explained inconsistencies with impression management motives. Second, we examined how profiles of actual OCB may manifest. Third, we tested the relationships among emerged profiles of OCB motives and OCB. Fourth, we assessed the relationships among emerged OCB motive profiles with patterns of OCB, counterproductive work behavior (CWB), job search behaviors, and work-family conflict (WFC) to elucidate the possible “dark side” of OCB. Latent profile analyses (LPA) revealed distinct profiles of OCB motives and OCB, and multivariate LPA indicated that profiles of OCB motives mapped onto profiles of OCB. Finally, associations among OCB motives and negative outcomes bolstered growing wo...