ABSTRACT

We explore how the impacts of unethical leadership are influenced either beneficially or detrimentally by perceived organizational support. A stress–resource view suggests organizational support is a resource that should offset the negative implications of unethical leadership. The negative exacerbator view suggests that receiving organizational support in light of unethical leadership should heighten the threat because it draws a stronger focus on and salience to the harm of the leader’s behavior for the employee. The results of a time-separated survey study and an experiment support our model and the negative exacerbator view. The findings show that unethical leader behavior elicits negative affect and indirectly (through negative affect) diminishes employees’ well-being and has a stronger effect when perceived organizational support was higher rather than lower.

摘要

我们探讨了不道德领导的影响如何受到组织支持的有利或不利影响。压力资源观点表明，组织支持是一种可以抵消不道德领导的负面影响的资源。负面加剧观点表明，在不道德的领导下获得组织支持应该会加剧威胁，因为它会更加关注和突出领导行为对员工的伤害。分时调查研究和实验的结果支持我们的模型和负面恶化因素的观点。