Abstract: In China, loyalty is a virtue with long history and unique cultural connotation, so it has been a hot topic among the management academic circles and the practice circles. It is widely believed that loyalty to organization can benefit the organization while loyalty to supervisor would be harmful to the organization. Through empirical studies, this paper proves that loyalty to supervisor can play a role of intermediation between the organizational citizenship behavior which is loyal to organization and employees and the workplace deviant behaviors, in other word, loyalty to supervisor can serve as a bridage between loyalty to organization and employees’ behavior. Without the functional mechanism of loyalty to supervisor, loyalty to organization can not play its proper role. As for organizations, it is obviously not beneficial to the healthy development of any organization if only encouraging its employees to be loyal to the organization rather than loyal to the supervisor.

Key words: loyalty to organization; loyalty to supervisor; organizational citizenship behavior; workplace deviance.