Helping and harming others in the workplace: The roles of personal values and abusive supervision

Drawing on models of competing values and self-verification theory, this article proposes that social dominance orientation (SDO) and psychological collectivism (PC) represent contrasting values that motivate opposing workplace interpersonal behaviors. SDO values are hypothesized to motivate interpe...

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Published in:Human relations (New York) 2011-08, Vol.64 (8), p.1051-1078
Main Authors: Ping Shao, Resick, Christian J, Hargis, Michael B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Avoidance
Avoidance behavior
Behavior
Citizenship
Collectivism
Cultural Values
Deviance
Deviant Behavior
Dominance
Domination
Human relations
Interpersonal relations
Psychological factors
Psychological Theories
Social values
Sociology
Sociology of work
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Supervision
Supervisor-Subordinate interactions
Supervisors
Values
Verification
Work organization. Working relations
Work place
Work values
Working conditions
Workplaces
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Summary:Drawing on models of competing values and self-verification theory, this article proposes that social dominance orientation (SDO) and psychological collectivism (PC) represent contrasting values that motivate opposing workplace interpersonal behaviors. SDO values are hypothesized to motivate interpersonal deviance and the avoidance of interpersonal citizenship as these behaviors verify social dominance as a guiding self-principle. PC values are hypothesized to motivate behaviors that verify collectivism as a guiding self-principle, including interpersonal citizenship and the avoidance of interpersonal deviance. Further, drawing on the values activation literature, abusive supervision is hypothesized to moderate the values-to-behavior relationships. In a cross-organizational sample of 490 working adults, SDO was positively related to interpersonal deviance and negatively related to interpersonal citizenship. Highly abusive supervision strengthened, whereas minimally abusive supervision weakened relationships with SDO. PC values were positively related to interpersonal citizenship, but were unrelated to interpersonal deviance and did not interact with abusive supervision.
ISSN:0018-7267
1741-282X
DOI:10.1177/0018726711399940