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How and When Compulsory Citizenship Behavior Leads to Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model Based on Moral Disengagement and Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi Views

IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc, 2019-03, Vol.155 (1), p.259-274 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer Nature B.V. 2019 ;Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2017 ;Journal of Business Ethics is a copyright of Springer, (2017). All Rights Reserved. ;(c) 2019. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the associated terms available at https://research.stlouisfed.org/research_terms.html . ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0167-4544 ;EISSN: 1573-0697 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3550-2

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  • Title:
    How and When Compulsory Citizenship Behavior Leads to Employee Silence: A Moderated Mediation Model Based on Moral Disengagement and Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi Views
  • Author: He, Peixu ; Peng, Zhenglong ; Zhao, Hongdan ; Estay, Christophe
  • Subjects: Behavior ; Business administration ; Business and Management ; Business Ethics ; Citizenship ; Cognition ; Compulsory ; Coping ; Coping strategies ; Disengagement ; Education ; Employees ; Ethics ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Intervention ; Involuntary ; Job performance ; Management ; Morality ; Organizational citizenship behaviour ; Original Paper ; Philosophy ; Quality of Life Research ; Self regulation ; Social cognitive theory ; Social exchange theory ; Work ; Workplaces
  • Is Part Of: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc, 2019-03, Vol.155 (1), p.259-274
  • Description: Prior research on citizenship behavior (CB) has mainly focused on its voluntary side—organizational citizenship behavior. Unfortunately, although compulsory behavior is a global organizational phenomenon, the involuntary side of CB—compulsory citizenship behavior (CCB), defined as employees' involuntary engagement in extra-role work activities that are beneficial to the organization (Vigoda-Gadot in J Theory Soc Behav 36(1): 77-93, 2006)—has long been neglected and very little is known about its potential negative consequences. Particularly, research on CCB–counterproductive work behavior (CWB) association is still in its nascent stage. Therefore, drawing on moral disengagement (MD) theory and social exchange theory, we firstly attempt to systematically investigate how and when CCB leads to CWB. Specifically, we see employee silence as a critical form of passive CWB and propose a moderated mediation model. In the model, CCB predicts silence through MD—a set of cognitive mechanisms that deactivate moral self-regulatory processes (Bandura in Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory, Prentice Hall, Englewood 1986), with the Chinese culture-specific concept of supervisor-subordinate guanxi (s-s guanxi), which captures the supervisor-subordinate non-work-related personal ties, acting as the contextual condition. Two-wave data collected from a sample of 293 employees in 17 manufacturing firms in China supported our hypotheses. The results revealed that the more employees experienced compulsory feelings caused by CCB, the more they morally disengaged and, in turn, resorted to avoidant or passive responses (i.e., silence) as a coping strategy. Further, s-s guanxi serves as a reverse moderator in that high s-s guanxi mitigates the destructive impact of CCB, makes employees less inclined to morally disengage, and thereby largely prevents them from practicing workplace silence behavior. Implications for theory and intervention strategies for practice are discussed. We also propose several promising avenues for future research.
  • Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0167-4544
    EISSN: 1573-0697
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3550-2
  • Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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