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- Title
The impact of incongruent CSR on time theft: an integration of cognitive and affective mechanisms.
- Authors
Long, Xianyi; Wang, Liang; Cao, Qinwei; Feng, Huaqing
- Abstract
This study aims to explore employees' response to incongruent CSR, a phenomenon in which companies allocate more resources to external than internal CSR issues. Drawing on retributive justice theory and the dual-process model, we argue that incongruent CSR may lead to employees' time theft, a type of minor counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs) directed towards organizations. Furthermore, we suggest that both cognitive (e.g., moral disengagement) and affective (e.g., anger) reactions partially mediate this relationship. Using survey data from 314 employees at Chinese firms, results show that incongruent CSR increases employees' moral disengagement and anger, which in turn increases their time theft. The results also reveal that employee Machiavellianism intensifies the impact of incongruent CSR on employees' moral disengagement and anger, as well as the indirect effects of these cognitive and affective reactions through which incongruent CSR leads to time theft. Overall, this study contributes to the literature by shedding light on how and when incongruent CSR may trigger minor deviant behaviors among employees.
- Subjects
DEVIANT behavior; SOCIAL responsibility of business; MORAL disengagement; COUNTERPRODUCTIVITY (Labor); THEFT; AFFECT (Psychology)
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 9, p7810
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-023-04951-0