Bad behaviours because of a dead‐end job? Effects of career plateau on counterproductive work behaviours
研究职业高原如何通过工作疏离感导致反生产行为，发现个人任务重塑和团队参与决策能缓解这种影响，对管理者和员工有参考价值。
Abstract Career advancement offers employee motivation, but what happens when an upward path reaches a plateau? With a three‐wave survey of 244 members of 58 work teams, the current study explores how and when career plateaus influence counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs), in accordance with negative reciprocity theory. The results show that at the individual level, individual job content plateaus relate positively to individual CWBs, through individual work alienation; individual task crafting weakens this mediating effect. At the team level, the team hierarchical plateaus relate positively to team CWBs through team work alienation, and team participation in decision‐making weakens this mediating effect. This multi‐level perspective establishes both theoretical contributions and practical implications.