Activating moral knowledge or suppressing deviance? The interactive effects of honesty-humility and ethical leadership on workplace deviance
研究基于HEXACO人格模型中的诚实谦逊维度，发现伦理领导力通过激活高诚实谦逊员工的道德知识、抑制低诚实谦逊员工的越轨倾向，来调节人格与职场越轨行为的关系。
Honesty-Humility (HH), the primary ethics-related dimension in the HEXACO personality model, is crucial for understanding workplace ethical conduct. We draw on and extend trait activation theory to encompass both activation and suppression mechanisms, proposing that ethical leadership activates and deactivates tendencies consistent with high and low HH, respectively, to shape the relationship between HH and workplace deviance. Across three samples, including a three-wave multi-source survey, we show ethical leadership moderates the HH-workplace deviance relationship. Our findings reveal a nuanced view of this dual-process model: ethical leadership primarily enhances the relationship between employee HH and moral knowledge, which in turn lowers deviance, whereas its effect on perceived deviance suppression—though present—does not translate as robustly into behavioral outcomes. Results indicate that ethical leadership is most effective at shaping the personality-deviance relationship by activating latent ethical tendencies, contributing to theories of trait activation and workplace deviance antecedents.