The Influence of the Observed Managers' Uncivilized Behaviors on the Employees' Uncivilized Behaviors: Based on the Social Cognition Theory

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the social cognitive theory, this study explores the functioning mechanism and fringe conditions of managers' uncivilized behaviors clearly observed on the uncivilized behaviors of the bystanders at workplace. Through the analysis of 363 supervisor-employee paired data collected at three stages, it is found that there is a significant positive correlation between observed managers' uncivilized behaviors and bystanders' uncivilized behaviors at workplace, that moral disengagement plays a mediating role in the relationship, and that psychological privilege is playing a moderating role both in the direct effects of the observed managers' uncivilized behaviors and the moral disengagement and in the indirect effects of observed managers' uncivilized behaviors on bystanders' uncivilized behaviors at workplace through moral disengagement. This indicates that employees' psychological cognition is playing an important role during the course of managers' uncivilized behaviors affecting the bystanders.

Key words: observed managers' uncivilized behavior;, moral disengagement, psychological privilege, uncivilized behaviors at workplace

CLC Number:

F272.92

ZHAN Xiao-jun, XIONG Tian-ren. The Influence of the Observed Managers' Uncivilized Behaviors on the Employees' Uncivilized Behaviors: Based on the Social Cognition Theory[J]. Contemporary Finance & Economics, 2021, 0(10): 92-102.

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