伦理型领导与道德污名工作对下属道德情绪和亲社会行为的交互影响

The Interaction Effect between Ethical Leadership and Morally Tainted Work on Follower Other-praising Moral Emotion and Prosocial Behavior

随着伦理问题的突出,组织的伦理实践开始受到理论家和实践者的关注。然而,以往对组织伦理问题的关注大多集中在伦理型领导方面,忽视了工作的伦理特征。基于社会信息加工理论,本文探究了领导和工作的伦理特征对下属道德情绪和亲社会行为的影响。采用两阶段问卷调查方式,通过获取64位领导和289位下属样本的结果显示,伦理型领导通过激发下属赞赏他人道德情绪促进下属亲社会行为的产生,同时,这一关系仅发生在道德污名较低的工作情境中。最后本文对研究的贡献和未来研究方向进行了讨论。

Theorists and practitioners have paid much attention on the ethical issues in organizations.In fact,organization is a complex environment of morality,with moral information from all aspects.For example,employees have their own moral standards,colleagues and leaders have different moral practices,and organizations also have overall moral values.Thus,it will be more appropriate to take all moral sources into consideration when dealing with moral issues.However,previous research mainly focuses on the effect of ethical leadership while paid little attention to the work ethical characteristics.For example,a series of studies have confirmed that ethical leadership has a significant effect on organizational ethical climate,team ethical decision-making,and employee ethical behavior.However,we still know little about how work ethical characteristics affect employee ethical behavior.Based on the theory of social information processing,this study intends to explore the integrated influence of leader ethical characteristics and work ethical characteristics on employee moral emotions and pro-social behaviors.By adopting a time-lagged research design,we collected data from 64 leaders and 289 followers.Results show that:(1)ethical leadership is positively related to subordinates’other-praising moral emotion;(2)subordinates’other-praising moral emotion is positively related to prosocial behavior(voice and helping behavior);(3)subordinates’other-praising moral emotion mediates the effect of ethical leadership on prosocial behavior;(4)ethical leadership and morally tainted work have interactive effects on subordinates’other-praising moral emotion and prosocial behavior.This study makes several theoretical contributions.First,this study enriches the affective explanation mechanism between leadership and subordinates’prosocial ethical behavior.Second,this study serves as the first to explore the inf luence of ethical leadership on subordinates’positive,other-directed moral emotion(i.e.other-praising moral emotion)and the subsequent prosocial behavior.Finally,based on the theory of social information processing,this study explores the interaction effect between ethical leadership and work ethics(i.e.,morally tainted work)on subordinate moral emotion,further revealing the boundary conditions of the effectiveness of ethical leadership.