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Do Unnecessary Tasks Impair Performance Because They Harm Living a Calling? : Testing a Mediation in a Three-Wave Study

Jaana MinkkinenAkihito ShimazuSaija Mauno

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Managementmielekkyys515 PsychologytyöCynicism0502 economics and businessmedicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesWastingkyynisyysGeneral PsychologyApplied PsychologyOrganizational citizenship behavior05 social sciencestuloksellisuusFollow up studiesorganizational citizenship behaviorfollow-up studykutsumusunnecessary taskstyötyytyväisyys050106 general psychology & cognitive sciencesHarmliving a callingWork (electrical)Mediationcynicismtehtävättyöpsykologiamedicine.symptomPsychologySocial psychology050203 business & management

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This three-wave study explored whether living a calling (at work) mediated the relation between unnecessary tasks (time wasting work tasks) and socio-contextual performance at work (cynicism, organizational citizenship behavior). Participants were 518 Finnish white- and blue-collar employees, who were followed up in 2018, 2019, and 2020. The results of structural equation modeling showed that unnecessary tasks at Time 1 related negatively to living a calling at Time 2, which, in turn, related to cynicism and organizational citizenship behavior at T3. Thus, living a calling mediated the relation between unnecessary tasks and the outcomes. We found no evidence for the moderator role of living a calling between unnecessary tasks and the outcomes. Unnecessary tasks should be minimized in organizations to promote living a calling and subsequent positive outcomes predicted by calling. publishedVersion Peer reviewed

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2021-07-02
http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-202105253191