Observer reactions to unethical pro-organizational behavior and their feedback effects

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2022-03-18

程垦 王艺霏 林英晖 王菁

Abstract：

In the past decade, unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) has been a hot topic in the organizational behavior field. Compared to the research on the formation mechanisms of UPB, the studies on the effects of UPB are still rather limited and mainly focus on the effect of leader UPB on employees and the effect of UPB on self-aware actors. Learning from and inspired by some views of correspondent inference theory and social cognitive theory, we develop a social interaction model of UPB between coworkers. This model, in which both actors and observers are employees, proposes that after observing actors conducting UPB, observers will expect the effect of UPB on actors and attribute motives to UPB, which, then affected by observers’ integrity, may trigger relevant psychological and behavioral reactions of observers. Furthermore, after receiving observers’ behavioral reactions, actors will interpret the intentions underlying beneath observers’ feedback, which then will affect the behavior changes of actors. In the end, we put forward some future research directions of this theoretical model in terms of observers’ moral judgment to UPB, cognitive appraisals related to the unethical attribute of UPB, and the internal mechanisms of behavior changes of UPB actors.

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The concept and influencing factors of unethical pro-organizational behavior: A motivational perspective

Subjects: Psychology >> Management Psychology submitted time 2019-02-02

程垦 林英晖

Abstract： Unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) is an important research topic which has drawn more and more attention from the organizational behavior field in recent years. Yet, it’s worth noting that the conceptualization of UPB is somewhat vague. Based on the motivational perspective, this paper deeply deconstructs and analyses the conceptual ambiguity of UPB in terms of definition, characteristic, motivation and type, and form a systematic concept connotation of UPB. Further, following the motivational logic behind UPB, this paper systematically reviews the influencing factors of UPB, and explains the mechanisms of these influencing factors on UPB. Finally, this paper provides specific suggestions for future research in terms of subtype, measurement, research perspective, influencing factor, inhibition mechanism, influencing mechanism and localization. "

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