Impact of relational leadership on employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior: A survey based on tourism companies in four countries
Autoři:
Xianchun Zhang aff001; Zhu Yao aff003
Působiště autorů:
ASEAN Tourism Research Center of China Tourism Academy, Guilin Tourism University, Guilin, Guangxi, China
aff001; Sino-Indonesia Tourism Academy, Trisakti School of Tourism, Jakarta, Indonesia
aff002; School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
aff003
Vyšlo v časopise:
PLoS ONE 14(12)
Kategorie:
Research Article
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225706
Souhrn
Based on the theory of social construction and self-consistency, this study aims to investigate the mechanism of relational leadership’s role in employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) from the perspective of moral identity and ethical climate. We found that relational leadership negatively correlates with the instrumental ethical climate, positively correlates with caring ethical climate, and exerts no significant impact on the rule ethical climate. Instrumental ethical climate and caring ethical climate mediate the relationship between relational leadership and employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior. In addition, moral identity negatively moderates the relationship between instrumental ethical climate and employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior, and between caring ethical climate and employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior. Furthermore, moral identity positively moderates the relationship between a rule ethical climate and employees’ unethical, pro-organizational behavior.
Klíčová slova:
Learning – Employment – Behavior – Cognition – Questionnaires – Consciousness – Industrial organization – Social theory
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