What is it about?

When companies build a competitive, dog-eat-dog atmosphere among their workers, employees are less likely to identify with the company and feel less desire to help the company or their fellow workers.

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Why is it important?

This is the first experimental study to manipulate the organisational culture using the new theoretical development of masculinity contest culture.

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We show the detrimental effects of such organisational cultures, and also propose another organisational culture as a viable alternative.

Yasin Koc
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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This page is a summary of: Masculinity contest culture reduces organizational citizenship behaviors through decreased organizational identification., Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied, June 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xap0000351.
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