Chapter 9: A Longitudinal Study of the Predictors of Contextual Performance

In organizations, employees are often expected to exceed the required roles of their jobs and perform tasks that are above and beyond a satisfactory level. The performance behaviors leading to this extra-role performance are collectively referred to as contextual performance (CP; Borman & Motowidlo, 1993).

CP is a facet of the broader domain of job performance (Campbell, 1990; Campbell, McHenry, & Wise, 1990). Campbell (1990) explained that previous selection research treated job performance as a unidimensional construct and emphasized the predictors of job performance rather than the job performance construct itself. Borman and Motowidlo (1993) expanded upon the work of Campbell by suggesting that the domain of job performance can be subdivided into task performance (TP) and CP.