Date of Award

4-2026

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Morrison, Patricia

Area of Concentration

Psychology

Abstract

This study tested a two-dimensional model of workplace reciprocity (Cropanzano et al., 2017) by examining whether supervisory activity, defined as the frequency and strength of engagement, predicts employee behavioral responses beyond hedonic value alone. Using vignettes representing each quadrant of a desirability x activity grid, participants (N = 166) reported on Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Deviant Workplace Behaviors, each with interpersonal and organizational subscales. Activity and desirability correlated strongly despite being experimentally manipulated as distinct dimensions, and contrary to predictions, higher perceived activity was associated with lower deviant behavior rather than higher. Still, both dimensions predicted citizenship behaviors comparably, while activity uniquely predicted deviant behavior in ways desirability did not. Interpersonal deviance operated independently of both dimensions, suggesting it responds to more immediate social cues than broader relational evaluations. Deviant behaviors were directed more toward the organization, while citizenship behaviors were directed more toward individuals, an asymmetry that challenges treating OCB and DWB as inverse outcomes. Overall, the findings support treating activity and desirability as distinct predictive dimensions, and caution against equating the absence of a variable with the presence of its opposite.

Rights

The author has granted New College of Florida the nonexclusive right to archive, make accessible, and distribute for educational purposes this work in whole or in part in all forms of media, now or hereafter known. The copyright of this work remains with the author.

Download

Share

COinS