管理学workshop:When the punisher is both potential victim and (intended) beneficiary: Investigating observers’ attitudinal and behavioral reactions toward organizational punishment severity for unethical pro-organizational behaviors

发布日期:2023-12-22 12:00    来源:

时间:2023年12月22日10:00

地点:承泽园333教室

Speaker: Qianyao Huang

Abstract:

While unethical behaviors that are intended to benefit the self are often severely punished, unethical behaviors that are intended to benefit the organization (unethical pro-organizational behaviors, UPBs) are disciplined within organizations at different levels of severity. Building on the sensemaking theoretical framework, we study how employees make sense of what the organization is like through observing what the organization has done (i.e., different levels of punishment imposed for UPBs) and how employees subsequently react to the results of sensemaking (i.e., affective commitment to the organization) — increased or decreased turnover and UPB engagement intention. By conducting a vignette-based experimental study and a time-lagged field study, we find that affective commitment to the organization of observers, especially those with a high moral disengagement propensity, increases at a low-to-moderate level of punishment severity for UPBs, and decreases at a moderate-to-high level of punishment severity for UPBs. Furthermore, the impacted affective commitment to the organization subsequently leads to increase in observers’ UPB engagement (intention) and decrease in observers’ turnover intention. We also highlight implications for theory and practice.

Introduction of Speaker

Dr. Qianyao Huang serves as an Assistant Professor at the International Business School Suzhou, Xi'An Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She attained her Doctor of Management Science degree in Enterprise Management, from the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Dr. Huang's research primarily explores ethics and leadership. She delves into how leaders' biases, moral orientations, and approaches to digital management impact team and individual outcomes. Her contributions have been featured in esteemed publications such as the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Vocational Behavior.


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