Perceived organizational support in typical versus atypical workers: Associations with job performance and organizational citizenship behavior

The paper tested the effect of perceived organizational support on job performance and organizational citizenship behavior of atypical employees and typical employees in Chinese state-owned enterprise. We found no significant difference between the two types of staffs on perceived organizational support, but the typical employees´ job performance, organizational citizenship behavior are higher than atypical employees´. Moreover, the results demonstrated the POS- performance link was stronger for atypical employees than for regular employees, indicating that when atypical workers have positive attitudes about their relationship with an organization, they engage in organizational citizenship behavior. The results showed that the relationship with organizational support and the performance behavior was affected by employment forms. We discuss the implications of these results for theory and practice.