Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon knowledge transfer between employees and coworkers. That is, when why engage in seeking or sabotage confronted with coworkers higher relative overqualification. Design/methodology/approach This collected survey data from 315 employee-coworker pairs East China at three-time points. Findings results showed that cooperative goal interdependence employee coworker high, perception coworker’s overqualification will cause benign...

Researchers have become increasingly interested in exploring leaders’ behaviours that promote followers’ proactive behaviours, but the literature is limited to leadership styles and generally does not consider leader displays of emotion. In this study, impact expressions gratitude on was examined from a self-evaluative perspective. Data field study ( N = 184) an experimental vignette 150) China supported our hypotheses were positively related behaviours. Role breadth self-efficacy perceived...

Purpose Prior studies have mainly attributed customer incivility to dispositional characteristics, whereas little attention has been paid exploring service employees' role in triggering or reducing incivility. The purpose of the present study is propose and test a model which emotional labor strategies affect via influencing customers' self-esteem threat, as well examine moderating customer's perception climate. Design/methodology/approach Based on matched sample consisting 317...

Although unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) in the workplace has been widely researched, studies have focused on its antecedents rather than outcomes. To fill this gap literature, we integrated moral licensing theory and literature leader gratitude expression to explore ethical consequences of UPB. Using a sample multi-source time-lagged surveys 206 leader–employee dyads, found that nature UPB fostered employees' psychological entitlement thereby increased their likelihood engaging...

Purpose Drawing on the dual-strategies theory of social rank and leader distance theory, this paper aims to investigate influence supervisor bottom-line mentality (BLM) employee knowledge-related behaviors by considering mediating role perceived prestige or dominance moderating supervisor–subordinate guanxi (SSG). Design/methodology/approach This study collected survey data from 185 research development employees in East China at three-time points. The authors conducted path analysis...

<p id=C2>Narcissism is a personality trait characterized by an inflated self-image, strong sense of psychological superiority and entitlement, low level empathy. As narcissism has substantial impact on employees' work quality, happiness, satisfaction, interpersonal relationships, employee become important topic research among scholars management practitioners, who have called for further the behavior narcissistic employees in process interaction. However, prosocial reached inconsistent...

Purpose In the period of organizational change and transformation, attitude employees towards has become a key factor in success change. Based on uncertainty management theory (UMT), paper considers authentic leadership as an important antecedent employee resistance to explores mediating role perceived moderating avoidance between Design/methodology/approach The conducted questionnaire survey study scenario experimental study. 1, authors collected two stages data from 256 Central China, one...

Purpose This study aims to advance the bottom-line mentality (BLM) literature by drawing on goal-setting theory examine positive effects of supervisor BLM employees' behavior. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected survey data from 291 full-time employees various Chinese organizations at three different points in time. Findings found that and collectivism orientation interacted influence goal commitment such relationship between was stronger when high rather than low. Furthermore,...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between visionary leadership and taking charge. authors also aim test mediating effects employee inclusion leader in self moderating future orientation.This tests theoretical model across a multisource, time-lagged field study with 234 leader-follower dyads as data. SPSS 25.0, PROCESS 3.4 macro Mplus8.3 were used hypotheses.We found that stimulates followers include leaders self, which turn enhances their Additionally, follower...

Severe tour guide stigma is a significant problem hindering tourism development. Based on self-identity threat and moral disengagement theory, this study analyzed the relationship between stigmatization guides' interpersonal deviance behavior. Survey data collected from 241 guides at three different points in time showed that was positively related to behavior mediated effect. The results also show moderated effect of behavior, as well indirect via threat. This enriches theoretical research...

Purpose The relationship between perceived overqualification and knowledge sharing has always been a hot topic, but scholars have come to different conclusions on this issue. purpose of study is integrate conflicting by considering the moderating role rewards for mediating intrinsic motivation in based self-determination theory. Design/methodology/approach authors collected three-wave survey data from 246 research development employees four companies China. Findings results showed that when...

The aim of this study is to investigate the unique contributions two distinct dimensions leaders' narcissism-admiration and rivalry-to nurses' organizational citizenship behavior towards leader mediating role challenge appraisal hindrance based on transactional stress theory. Leaders' narcissism widespread in hospitals, so whether nurses will show narcissistic leaders related harmony stability team. Thus, clarifying positive or negative relationship between has become a priority. A...

Leaders’ rejection of employee suggestions is a common occurrence in organizations, yet current research unclear about how and when leader voice affects employees’ subsequent upward voice. Based on the cognitive–affective personality system (CAPS) theory emotion as social information (EASI) model, this study examines mediating role self-efficacy (VSE) leader-member exchange (LMX), well moderating gratitude expression. Analyzing 245 questionnaires collected across multiple-wave multiple...

Perceived relative overqualification (PRQ) is a big step forward on the theme. The only two papers available PRQ focus downward comparison (Jahantab et al., 2021; Li 2022), yet this may consider one side of coin. Drawing social theory and upward perspective, paper examines perceived coworker their subsequent knowledge behavior to examine underlying mechanisms boundary conditions. Through 315 employee-coworker dyadic data collected at three time points in East China, we found that when...

Because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, organizations are facing significant challenges to their survival and development. To counter these challenges, striving for bottom-line outcomes has become most important objective supervisors. However, there is little research on influence mechanism supervisor mentality (BLM) in field knowledge management. Drawing dual-strategies theory social rank leader distance theory, we investigated mediating role perceived prestige or dominance by employees...

Employees’ subjective well-being becomes a particular important issue in modern organizations and scholars are interesting investigating how to promote maintain individuals’ well-being. Then, this study, integrated the model of human growth at work dominance complementarity theory, examines negative effect narcissistic supervision on employees’ explores underlying mechanisms boundary conditions. The hypotheses were tested by scenario-based experiment field study. As hypothesized, had...

Labor markets around the world have been disrupted on a historically unprecedented scale due to COVID-19. The WalletHub Coronavirus and Day Survey found that one in three Americans are worried about job security (WalletHub, 2020). Job insecurity plays role influencing employee daily work activities as well long-term career outcomes. Given increasing prevalence of today’s workplace, is no longer an individual level phenomenon but shared perception among unit. In current symposium, we explore...