Employee and coworker idiosyncratic deals: implications for emotional exhaustion and deviant behaviors

By integrating conservation of resources and social comparison perspectives, we seek to investigate how employees’ own i-deals, independently from and jointly with their coworker’s i-deals, determine their emotional exhaustion and subsequent deviant behaviors. We conducted a field study (131 coworke...

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發表在:Journal of business ethics
Authors: Kong, Dejun (Author) ; Ho, Violet T. (Author) ; Garg, Sargam (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Springer 2020
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2020, 卷: 164, 發布: 3, Pages: 593-609
Further subjects:B Social comparison
B Deviant behaviors
B Emotional Exhaustion
B Idiosyncratic deals
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Coworker
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總結:By integrating conservation of resources and social comparison perspectives, we seek to investigate how employees’ own i-deals, independently from and jointly with their coworker’s i-deals, determine their emotional exhaustion and subsequent deviant behaviors. We conducted a field study (131 coworker dyads) focusing on task i-deals, and used Actor–Partner Interdependence Model and polynomial regression to test the hypotheses. We found that emotional exhaustion not only mediated the negative relationship between employees’ own task i-deals and deviant behaviors, but also mediated the positive relationship between upward social comparison of task i-deals (i.e., a coworker’s vs own task i-deals) and deviant behaviors. These results demonstrated the intra- and interpersonal implications of task i-deals for emotional exhaustion and subsequent deviant behaviors. The current research not only shifts the attention from a predominantly positive view on i-deals to a more balanced and nuanced view on i-deals’ implications, but also sheds light on the interpersonal nature of i-deals and the emotional exhaustion implication of upward social comparison.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-4033-9