Moral identity: why perceived self-interested work environment facilitates leaders to omit rewards.

Autor: Jih-Yu Mao, Xinyan Mu, Keng, Fong T., Ting-Ju Chiang, Jack
Zdroj: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings; 2021, Vol. 2021 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p
Abstrakt: A self-interested work environment is characterized by employees prioritizing personal interests and gains before those of the organization and the larger collective. Although it is not uncommon for employees to act self-interestingly, self-interested values are largely against those of moral leaders who have a high regard for organizational and others' welfare. The current study draws on moral development and person-environment fit theories to examine how leaders with a strong moral identity are likely to react to perceptions of a self-interested environment. We suggest that perceptions of a self-interested environment are likely to result in moral dissatisfaction for leaders with a strong moral identity, who subsequently omit employees' rewards in order to remedy the self-interested values that pervade the work environment. The results of a time-lagged, multi-source survey study provide support for our hypotheses. Insights for theory, practice, and future studies are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index