ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B
主办:中国心理学会
   中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理学报 ›› 2017, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (6): 829-840.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2017.00829

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 员工非伦理行为如何招致同事攻击:道义公正视角

 王端旭;曾恺;郑显伟   

  1.   (浙江大学管理学院, 杭州 310058)
  • 收稿日期:2016-04-22 发布日期:2020-12-07 出版日期:2017-06-25
  • 通讯作者: 曾恺, E-mail: zengkai5838063@163.com E-mail: E-mail: zengkai5838063@163.com
  • 基金资助:
     国家自然科学基金面上项目(71272169)。

 How employee’s unethical behavior leads to coworker-initiated aggression: The perspective of deontic justice

 WANG Duanxu; ZENG Kai; ZHENG Xianwei   

  1.  (School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058 China)
  • Received:2016-04-22 Online:2020-12-07 Published:2017-06-25
  • Contact: ZENG Kai, E-mail: zengkai5838063@163.com E-mail: E-mail: zengkai5838063@163.com
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摘要:  通过整合理性判断与道义公正模型, 聚焦非伦理行为实施者被同事攻击的现象, 提出员工的非伦理行为导致同事道义不公正, 进而引发同事的攻击行为。并且, 这个过程分别受到伦理领导的正向影响和任务互依性的负向影响。通过分析265组来自浙江省一家大型制造企业一线员工的双点数据, 结果表明同事道义不公正在员工非伦理行为与其被同事攻击之间起到了中介作用; 伦理领导正向调节了非伦理行为对同事道义不公正的影响, 即伦理领导增强了员工非伦理行为对同事道义不公正的正向作用, 从而导致同事攻击行为的产生; 任务互依性负向调节了同事道义不公正与攻击行为之间的正向关系, 并且减弱了同事道义不公正在员工非伦理行为与攻击行为之间的中介作用。研究结果为控制和预防职场非伦理行为提供了理论依据和实践启示。

关键词:  非伦理行为, 职场被攻击, 同事, 道义公正, 理性判断

Abstract:  Organizational behavior researchers have paid close attention to employee’s unethical behaviors and suggest that the third parties’ reactions will determine the follow-up development of these misconducts to a large extent. Coworkers’ tolerance will probably lead to the spread of unethical behavior, while coworkers’ punishment can effectively prevent the recurrence of such behavior. Drawing from deontic model of justice, this study proposed that coworker’s deontic injustice mediated the relationship between employee’s unethical behavior and employee’s victimization, and ethical leadership moderated the impact of employee’s unethical behavior on coworker’s deontic injustice while task interdependence moderated the influence of coworker’s deontic injustice on employee’s victimization. In order to test these hypotheses, data for the current study were collected from 265 employees through questionnaires from a large manufacturing company located in Zhejiang Province of China. All the questionnaires were distributed in envelopes and answered by respondents themselves, to further ensure the reliability and validity, back translation procedure was used. We conducted two-wave surveys with one month interval to minimize the common method bias (CMB). Employee’s unethical behavior, ethical leadership and task interdependence were gathered at the first wave; coworker’s deontic injustice and employees’ victimization were collected at the second wave; demographic information served as control variables. Finally, 265 valid and paired samples were obtained. The main hypotheses were tested by hierarchical regression and, the bootstrap method was also used to examine the moderated mediation model. The results showed that: (1) employee’s unethical behavior positively related to employee’s victimization; (2) coworker’s deontic injustice mediated the relationship between employee’s unethical behavior and employee’s victimization; (3) ethical leadership moderated the relationship between employee’s unethical behavior and coworker’s deontic injustice; (4) task interdependence moderated the relationship between coworker’s deontic injustice and employee’s victimization. The results of this study further confirmed the moderated mediation hypotheses of ethical leadership and task interdependence, that was, the mediating effects would be exacerbated by ethical leadership, yet mitigated by task interdependence. Moreover, a joint moderated mediation model of ethical leadership and task interdependence have also been proved by the results of this study. Therefore, based on the deontic model of justice, this study explained why and when employee’s unethical behavior leads to employee’s victimization. Overall, this study contributes to the organizational behavior literature in several ways. First, we complement the deficiency of the linkage between employee’s unethical behavior and employee’s victimization by introducing the deontic model of justice. Second, we integrate the research of rational judgments and deontic model of justice by emphasizing that the process of deontic response includes not only deontic judgments but also rational judgments. Third, we provide support for the argument of the positive role of task interdependence in workplace aggression by demonstrating the buffer effect of task interdependence in this study. Finally, we bring a new perspective for the study of aggression behavior by emphasizing the dynamic conversion among the attacker, the victim and the third party.

Key words:  unethical behavior, workplace victimization, coworker, deontic justice, rational judgment

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