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- Title
How and When Leaders' Perceptions of Team Politics Influence Justice Rule Adherence: A Moral Self-Regulation Perspective.
- Authors
Liu, Depeng; Chen, Mo; Ren, Isabelle Yi; Pang, Xuhong; Zhao, Yapu
- Abstract
Leaders enact justice in a workplace that is often replete with various political dynamics such as goal conflicts, cliques, and differential treatments. Understanding how and when workplace politics influence leaders' justice rule adherence is theoretically and practically important. In this paper, we conceptualize the workplace as a political arena and adopt moral self-regulation theory to explore how and when leaders' perceptions of team politics (PTP) impact their justice rule adherence. We hypothesize that leaders' PTP prompts them to justify subordinates-directed unjust behaviors, which in turn reduces their justice rule adherence. Furthermore, we hypothesize that leaders' high construal level mitigates the negative effect of PTP on justice rule adherence. We conduct three studies to examine our theoretical model at both the within- and between-person levels. Results from two interval-based experience sampling studies (within-person) and one time-lagged scenario-based experiment (between-person) demonstrate consistent support for our hypotheses. We conclude by discussing the theoretical and managerial implications of our research.
- Subjects
LEADERS; PERCEPTION (Philosophy); OFFICE politics; ORGANIZATIONAL justice; SELF regulation; EMPLOYEE rules; COMPLIANT behavior
- Publication
Journal of Business Ethics, 2024, Vol 192, Issue 2, p385
- ISSN
0167-4544
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10551-023-05549-z