Can good followers create unethical leaders? How follower citizenship leads to leader moral licensing and unethical behavior
| العنوان: | Can good followers create unethical leaders? How follower citizenship leads to leader moral licensing and unethical behavior |
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| المؤلفون: | Mark C. Bolino, Anthony C. Klotz, M. Ghufran Ahmad |
| المصدر: | Journal of Applied Psychology. 106:1374-1390 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Psychological Association (APA), 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Organizational citizenship behavior, Field (Bourdieu), media_common.quotation_subject, 05 social sciences, PsycINFO, Morality, 0502 economics and business, Narcissism, medicine, medicine.symptom, Psychology, Citizenship, Social psychology, 050203 business & management, Applied Psychology, media_common, Social influence |
| الوصف: | Whereas the study of leadership has generally focused on how leaders influence the behavior of their followers, this article focuses on how and when the behaviors of followers can influence leaders' behavior. Specifically, we use moral licensing theory to examine the possibility that positive follower behavior could lead to unethical behavior by leaders. Across a pilot study, 2 experiments, and 1 field study, our findings suggest that when their followers perform organizational citizenship behaviors, leaders are more likely to grant themselves moral credit to behave unethically. Moreover, we find that leaders are especially likely to gain moral credit as a result of followers' good deeds when leader narcissism is high or when they identify with their followers. Together, these studies provide evidence that good behavior on the part of followers may psychologically free leaders to engage in subsequent unethical behavior, thereby contributing to our understanding of how followers can influence leader behavior and how vicarious moral licensing operates in organizational contexts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). |
| تدمد: | 1939-1854 0021-9010 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::fc0fddb355b8367a8293810ea34cf260 https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000839 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....fc0fddb355b8367a8293810ea34cf260 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19391854 00219010 |
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