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Journal of Business Ethics

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(Un)Ethical Behavior and Performance Appraisal: The Role of Affect, Support, and Organizational Justice

verfasst von: Gabriele Jacobs, Frank D. Belschak, Deanne N. Den Hartog

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2014

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Performance appraisals are widely used as an HR instrument. This study among 332 police officers examines the effects of performance appraisals from a behavioral ethics perspective. A mediation model relating justice perceptions of police officers’ last performance appraisal to their work affect, perceived supervisor and organizational support and, in turn, their ethical (pro-organizational proactive) and unethical (counterproductive) work behavior was tested empirically. The relationship between justice perceptions and both, ethical and unethical behavior was mediated by perceived support and work affect. Hence, a singular yearly performance appraisal was linked to both ethical and unethical behaviors at work. The finding that ethical and unethical aspects of employee behavior share several of the same organizational antecedents, namely organizational justice perceptions, has strong practical implications which are discussed as well.

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Titel: (Un)Ethical Behavior and Performance Appraisal: The Role of Affect, Support, and Organizational Justice
verfasst von: Gabriele Jacobs
Frank D. Belschak
Deanne N. Den Hartog
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2014
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1687-1

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