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The malevolent side of organizational identification: unraveling the impact of psychological entitlement and manipulative personality on unethical work behaviors

verfasst von: Saima Naseer, Dave Bouckenooghe, Fauzia Syed, Abdul Karim Khan, Shadab Qazi

Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Ausgabe 3/2020

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This study expands the behavioral ethics literature by unraveling how and when the malevolent side of organizational identification promotes unethical work behaviors (i.e., pro-organizational and self-interested). Specifically, we examine whether employees’ engagement in unethical pro-organizational behaviors may be caused by overidentifying with their organization, which yields a sense of psychological entitlement that fosters careerist orientation and counterproductive work behaviors. We also hypothesize that psychological entitlement has an indirect effect contingent on employees’ manipulative personality. We used a multi-wave, two-source research design and collected data from 306 employees and their peers in Pakistan’s service sector. The data support the mediated effect between organizational identification and unethical pro-organizational behaviors through enhanced feelings of psychological entitlement. We also found that the impact of organizational identification on psychological entitlement was more pronounced among employees with higher manipulative personality scores.

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Titel: The malevolent side of organizational identification: unraveling the impact of psychological entitlement and manipulative personality on unethical work behaviors
verfasst von: Saima Naseer
Dave Bouckenooghe
Fauzia Syed
Abdul Karim Khan
Shadab Qazi
Publikationsdatum: 22.02.2019
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of Business and Psychology / Ausgabe 3/2020
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-019-09623-0

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