Gibb Stephen
School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, UK.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2023 Feb 25;13(3):203. doi: 10.3390/bs13030203.
Organization culture is a potential antecedent and moderator of prosocial behaviors at work. So, what is currently known about the prosocial-culture-work nexus? Studies of this nexus may be predicted to exist in the form of research on organization cultures of three types. One would be studies of specific organization cultures representing espoused Employer Value Propositions (EVPs). One would be etic studies using constructs of organization culture. The other would be emic studies, with the 'thick description' associated with ethnography/anthropology. An integrative literature review on the prosocial-organization culture-work nexus located 22 studies. Most studies are of the etic type, while others are mainly concerned with theory development. There is no evidence of a clear concept of organization culture being used in any study. The future research agenda for the prosocial-culture-work nexus follow from this. Constructs of organization culture need to be adopted and used. There is huge scope for EVP studies to explicitly and critically explore the breadth of the prosocial themes these often contain. Etic studies are the ones where the lack of organization culture constructs is most striking, given their methodologies. More emic studies with ethnographic/anthropological depth to explore, both work organizations in single countries, and in comparative studies across countries, are needed. Better clarified prosocial constructs will not in themselves advance knowledge if the organizational culture contexts in which prosociality exists remain under-appreciated.
组织文化是工作场所亲社会行为的潜在前因和调节因素。那么，目前关于亲社会文化与工作之间的联系我们了解多少呢？可以预计，关于这种联系的研究可能以对三种类型组织文化的研究形式存在。一种是对代表所宣称的雇主价值主张（EVP）的特定组织文化的研究。一种是使用组织文化构念的普遍性研究。另一种是具有与民族志/人类学相关的“深度描述”的本位研究。一项关于亲社会组织文化与工作之间联系的综合文献综述找到了22项研究。大多数研究是普遍性研究类型，而其他研究主要关注理论发展。没有证据表明任何研究中使用了清晰的组织文化概念。亲社会文化与工作之间联系的未来研究议程由此而来。需要采用和使用组织文化的构念。EVP研究有很大的空间来明确且批判性地探索这些主张通常包含的亲社会主题的广度。鉴于其方法论，普遍性研究是缺乏组织文化构念最为明显的研究类型。需要更多具有民族志/人类学深度的本位研究，以探索单个国家的工作组织以及跨国比较研究中的情况。如果亲社会行为存在的组织文化背景仍未得到充分认识，那么更好地阐明亲社会构念本身并不能推动知识的进步。
