Good actors but bad apples: Deviant consequences of daily impression management at work
| Autor: | Lawrence Houston, Mark C. Bolino, Wei He, Anthony C. Klotz, Wu Wei, Kai Chi Yam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Employment Male media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology PsycINFO Temptation Young Adult Politics Great Rift Self promotion 0502 economics and business Humans Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Social Behavior Applied Psychology media_common 05 social sciences Impression management Ingratiation Female Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Deviance (sociology) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Psychology. 103:1145-1154 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1854 0021-9010 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/apl0000335 |
| Popis: | Impression management (IM) refers to behaviors employees use to create and maintain desired images in the workplace. Prior studies have shown that the successful use of IM relates to a number of important outcomes for employees (e.g., higher performance evaluations), but this work has tended to compare IM usage between individuals, ignoring the fact that employees likely adjust their use of IM depending on the situations they face at work on a given day. In this paper, we argue that managing impressions on a daily basis can be draining, thereby leaving employees susceptible to the temptation to engage in subsequent harmful behaviors at work. To better understand the nature and within-person consequences of IM, we examine the daily use of two supervisor-focused IM tactics-ingratiation and self-promotion-among 75 professionals in China over the course of two work weeks. Our results indicate that there is significant within-person variance in employees' use of ingratiation and self-promotion aimed at supervisors. Moreover, our findings suggest that the use of ingratiation, but not self-promotion, depletes employees' self-control resources. In the case of ingratiation, this depletion is positively associated with employee deviance, and the indirect effect is stronger among employees with low political skill. Overall, this research contributes to our understanding of the dynamic, within-person nature of IM, the consequences of IM for employees, and the dark side of IM for organizations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). |
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