Influence of organizational citizenship behavior on prosocial rule breaking: Moral licensing perspective
Influence of organizational citizenship behavior on prosocial rule breaking: Moral licensing perspective
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组织公民行为对亲社会规则破坏的影响:道德许可视角
DOI:
10.2224/sbp.8079
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发表时间:
2019-06-01
影响因子:
1.3
通讯作者:
Zhou, Erhua
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作者:
Liu, Tingting;Liu, Chang'e;Zhou, Erhua
Researchers have introduced the prosocial rule breaking (PSRB) concept to explain situations where employees encounter an ethical dilemma between promoting the welfare of the organization and following organizational regulations. PSRB can be regarded as ethical decision making in an
organization, but few researchers have used ethical decision theories to study it. Adopting the moral licensing perspective, we argued that organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), the typical form of moral conduct within organizations, would predict PSRB, and that this relationship would
be mediated by moral selfimage and moderated by intrinsic motivation for OCB. Results of our 2-wave survey of 433 Chinese employees showed that employees’ OCB had a positive effect on PSRB through the mediator of moral self-image. Additionally, when intrinsic motivation toward OCB was
high, the relationship between OCB and moral self-image was amplified and gave more confidence to employees to practice PSRB. Our findings contribute to the understanding of PSRB and moral licensing theory.