Deviance and Exit: The Organizational Costs of Job Insecurity and Moral Disengagement

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Huang, Guo-hua; Wellman, Ned; Ashford, Susan J.; Lee, Cynthia; Wang, Li
• 署名单位: Hong Kong Baptist University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northeastern University; Tongji University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0000158
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 26-42
• 关键词: job insecurity; WORKPLACE DEVIANCE; MORAL DISENGAGEMENT; employment opportunities; LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE

摘要

This study examines why and when employees might respond to job insecurity by engaging in workplace deviance and developing intentions to leave-2 activities that are costly for organizations. Drawing on social exchange theory and the theory of moral disengagement, we propose that job insecurity increases workplace deviance and intentions to leave by encouraging employees to morally disengage. We further propose that the strength of the positive association between job insecurity, moral disengagement, and these outcomes is contingent upon 2 aspects of the situation-employees' perceived employment opportunities outside the organization and the quality of the exchange relationship they have developed with their supervisors (leader-member exchange, or LMX). Two time-lagged studies of Chinese workers provide support for the hypothesized 1st-stage moderated mediation model. Specifically, the indirect effect of job insecurity on organizational and interpersonal deviance and intentions to leave via moral disengagement was positive and significant when individuals had more employment opportunities or when LMX was lower but not when they had fewer employment opportunities or when LMX was higher.