The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism

Frontiers in Psychology

Hongyan Jiang¹ 

关键词: authoritarian leadership;    deviant workplace behaviors;    psychological contract violation;    organizational cynicism;    mediating effects;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00732

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models. The results showed that the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees’ DWB was mediated by organizational cynicism. Moreover, this relationship was also sequentially mediated by psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. This research unveiled psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism as underlying mechanism that explained the link between authoritarian leadership and employees’ DWB.

【 授权许可】

CC BY