title: Altruistic organizational citizenship behavior: context, disposition, and age.
abstract: The authors proposed employee age as moderating the structural stability of altruistic organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) with regard to the influence of context-relevant attitudes and dispositional variables. Analyses of peer ratings of altruistic OCB in a sample of 96 U.S. nurses showed that the contextual variables of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and trust in management were germane for the younger participants. The dispositional variable of moral judgment was a unique predictor of altruistic OCB among the older participants.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, USA. swagner@ggu.edu
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Rush
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000533:Altruism; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses; D015279:Organizational Culture; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010559:Personnel Management; D014342:Truth Disclosure