Impact of workplace ostracism on unethical pro-organizational behaviors
ISSN: 0048-3486
Article publication date: 18 December 2019
Issue publication date: 10 October 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of workplace ostracism on unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB), by focusing on the moderating role of value alignment of WPS.
Design/methodology/approach
The theoretical model was tested using data collected from 434 employees in different companies from Shanxi provinces in China. Analysis of lagged data is used to empirically test the relationship between workplace ostracism and UPB.
Findings
The study found that ostracized individuals are more likely to engage in UPB when they embrace high value alignment with the organization.
Originality/value
This study examines the moderating effect of WPS, providing boundary condition for the relationship between workplace ostracism and UPB. So far, most of the empirical work has identified moderators that only buffer the relationship between ostracism and negative outcomes, and the result for moderators that actually determine pro-social responses has not yet to be discovered.
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Acknowledgements
The author wants to give sincere gratitude to the author’s husband, Zhao Lin and two daughters, Zhao Qiujie and Zhao Yajie for their helpful comments to this paper. This research was supported by China’s Education of Humanities and Social Sciences Research on Planning Fund (18YJA630145) and China’s Scholarship Council Fund (201408140015).
Citation
Zhang, S. (2020), "Impact of workplace ostracism on unethical pro-organizational behaviors", Personnel Review, Vol. 49 No. 8, pp. 1537-1551. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-05-2019-0245
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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