The argument advanced here is for a broader view of employees and of the antecedents of rulefollowing behavior among employees. We looked at the influence of both instrumental and value-based motivations in shaping rule-following behavior.The results presented suggest that considering both models together better explains such behavior than does considering either model alone.The view presented here includes not only the motivations traditionally studied—motivations linked to sanctions and incentives—but also social motivations for following group rules (Tyler & Darley, 1999). These social motivations are linked to concerns about social values in work settings. The case for this broader model rests on the finding that, in two different studies, corporate actors’ social values concerning legitimacy and morality were found to motivate their rule following. These findings suggest that scholars would be better able to understand rule-following behavior in work organizations, as well as in other settings, if they adopted a broader model of human motivation that added an account of social motivations to models of employee behavior.