Explanation of the Role of Ethical Climate & Social Undermining in Employee Job Involvement

PurposeLeadership is a time-dependent process and a recent leadership research trend posits a central role of time-based variables. The dyadic tenure plays a keystone role in understanding leader–follower dynamics, especially as regards leader ethics. In line with this, from a social learning theory perspective, the authors propose a model that explains how and when ethical leaders' behaviors influence subordinates' moral disengagement.Design/methodology/approachWith a sample of 220 employees, the present study tests the conditional indirect effect of ethical leadership on followers' moral disengagement via instrumental ethical climate (IEC), using dyadic tenure as the moderator variable. The analyses were conducted with Hayes PROCESS macro.FindingsResults suggested that IEC fully mediates the relationship between ethical leadership and moral disengagement. Thus, when followers perceive low levels of ethical leadership, they notice higher levels of IEC, which is positively related to moral disengagement. However, IEC perception only influences moral disengagement when dyadic tenure approaches the third year.Originality/valueThis paper answers calls to include time-based variables in leadership studies. Hence, using dyadic tenure, this study gives support to previous propositions that were still awaiting empirical test.

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Person–job fit and job involvement: the curvilinear effect and the moderating role of goal orientation

Journal of Managerial Psychology ◽

10.1108/jmp-02-2020-0095 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Dong Ju ◽

Jingjing Yao ◽

Li Ma

Keyword(s):

Goal Orientation ◽

Job Involvement ◽

Job Fit ◽

Performance Goal ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Content Type ◽

Learning Goal Orientation ◽

Cross Sectional Design ◽

Employee Needs

PurposeJob involvement is an important predictor of how well employees perform and feel at work. However, despite fruitful findings, little is known about how person–job (P–J) fit affects job involvement.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a cross-sectional design and collected data from 375 employees and 50 managers. Multivariate regression was applied to test the moderated curvilinear model.FindingsThis study found an inverted U-shaped relationship between P–J fit and job involvement. For employees with a strong performance goal orientation, maximum job involvement occurred at a higher level of P–J fit, whereas for employees with a strong learning goal orientation, maximum job involvement occurred at a moderate level of P–J fit.Practical implicationsManagers should be aware that solely maximizing fit may not constantly yield positive outcomes, and that ignoring differences in employee needs and goals may be counterproductive.Originality/valueThe study challenges the conventional wisdom that a high P–J fit is always productive by showing that a high fit may sometimes jeopardize job involvement, particularly for certain employees.

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How Organizational Ethical Climate affects Work-Life Balance, and Psychological Well-Being: The mediatory Role of Psychological Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness, complemented by Socially Responsible Leadership

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3941976 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Rao Farhan Gulsher ◽

Danish Ahmed Siddiqui

Keyword(s):

Ethical Climate ◽

Well Being ◽

Work Life ◽

Responsible Leadership ◽

Socially Responsible Leadership ◽

Socially Responsible ◽

Life Balance ◽

Psychological Autonomy ◽

Organizational Ethical Climate

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Individual Differences in Work-Related Well-Being: The Role of Attachment Style

Europe’s Journal of Psychology ◽

10.5964/ejop.v10i4.814 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. 694-711

Author(s):

Tiziana Lanciano ◽

Vanda Lucia Zammuner

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Attachment Style ◽

Adult Attachment ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Job Involvement ◽

Well Being ◽

Anxious Attachment ◽

Work Related ◽

Dispositional Trait

Integrating theories of adult attachment and well-being at the workplace, the present study tested the role of attachment style in predicting work-related well-being in terms of job satisfaction and job involvement, over and above dispositional trait measures (emotional traits and work-related traits). A sample of workers took part in a correlational study that explored the relationships among a) adult attachment, b) emotional traits, c) work-related traits, and d) work-related well-being indices. The results showed that both secure and anxious attachment style explained workers’ job involvement, whereas the secure and avoidant attachment styles explained workers’ job satisfaction. The current findings thus confirm and expand the literature's emphasis on studying the variables and processes that underlie people's mental health in the work setting, and have implications for assessing and promoting well-being in the workplace.

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