This study was conducted to see the effects of emotional labor as a job attitude on organizational citizenship behavior, and to verify the effects of adjusting organizational support as an alleviating mechanism for such relationship in order to provid...
This study was conducted to see the effects of emotional labor as a job attitude on organizational citizenship behavior, and to verify the effects of adjusting organizational support as an alleviating mechanism for such relationship in order to provide suggestions on finding ways to relieve hospital workers of emotional labor. Research was conducted on 354 nurses from medical institutions above hospital level in Chungcheongnamdo/bukdo and Daejeon-si. Summary of this research is as follows. First, deep acting of emotional labor was revealed to have a positive (+) effect on organizational citizenship behavior, and surface acting had a negative (-) effect. Second, organizational support was found to have a positive (+) effect on organizational citizenship behavior. Third, organizational support had a significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior and interaction between deep acting and organizational support had a significant positive (+) effect on organizational citizenship behavior, but it was revealed that interaction between surface acting and organizational support had no significant effect on organizational citizenship behavior. From the existing argument that deep acting, a positive emotional state, has a direct impact on organizational citizenship behavior, a behavioral variable, this study has confirmed that increasing perception of organizational support leads to organizational citizenship behavior, which is a positive behavior. However, it was revealed that organizational support had no effect on the relationship between surface acting and organizational citizenship behavior. This is due to the fact that emotional exhaustion through surface acting prevents organizational citizenship behavior, even if perception of organizational support is given afterwards. Therefore, further study is required to search for adjustment variables that will reduce negative result of surface acting.