When Employees Do Bad Things for Good Reasons: Examining Unethical Pro-Organizational Behaviors
研究员工出于帮助组织目的而做出的不道德行为,发现积极的社会交换关系和组织认同会通过道德中立化过程间接导致这种行为,并探讨了情境和个体因素的调节作用。
We propose that employees sometimes engage in unethical acts with the intent to benefit their organization, its members, or both—a construct we term unethical pro-organizational behavior. We suggest that positive social exchange relationships and organizational identification may lead to unethical pro-organizational behavior indirectly via neutralization, the process by which the moral content of unethical actions is overlooked. We incorporate situational and individual-level constructs as moderators of these relationships and consider managerial implications and future research.