The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism
This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a no...
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| description | This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models. The results showed that the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ DWB was mediated by organizational cynicism. Moreover, this relationship was also sequentially mediated by psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. This research unveiled psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism as underlying mechanism that explained the link between authoritarian leadership and employees’ DWB. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-96bfd4cce57a4136bd46be6b3dfc15a92022-12-22T03:22:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782017-05-01810.3389/fpsyg.2017.00732237190The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational CynicismHongyan Jiang0Yang Chen1Peizhen Sun2Jun Yang3School of Management, China University of Mining and TechnologyXuzhou, ChinaSchool of Management, China University of Mining and TechnologyXuzhou, ChinaDepartment of Psychology, Jiangsu Normal UniversityXuzhou, ChinaSchool of Management, China University of Mining and TechnologyXuzhou, ChinaThis study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models. The results showed that the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ DWB was mediated by organizational cynicism. Moreover, this relationship was also sequentially mediated by psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. This research unveiled psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism as underlying mechanism that explained the link between authoritarian leadership and employees’ DWB.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00732/fullauthoritarian leadershipdeviant workplace behaviorspsychological contract violationorganizational cynicismmediating effects |
| spellingShingle | Hongyan Jiang Yang Chen Peizhen Sun Jun Yang The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism Frontiers in Psychology authoritarian leadership deviant workplace behaviors psychological contract violation organizational cynicism mediating effects |
| title | The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism |
| title_full | The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism |
| title_fullStr | The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism |
| title_short | The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism |
| title_sort | relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees deviant workplace behaviors the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism |
| topic | authoritarian leadership deviant workplace behaviors psychological contract violation organizational cynicism mediating effects |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00732/full |
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