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标题：The Trickle-Down Effect of Authoritarian Leadership on Unethical Employee Behavior: A Cross-Level Moderated Mediation Model
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作者：Rui, Jiang ; Qi, Lin Xin
期刊名称：Frontiers in Psychology
电子版ISSN：1664-1078
出版年度：2021
卷号：11
页码：3286
DOI：10.3389/fpsyg.2020.550082
出版社：Frontiers Media
摘要：Benevolent leadership is of great significance to Chinese organizations. Meanwhile, unethical employee behavior also widely exists in all types of social organizations. The relationship between benevolent leadership and unethical employee behavior is worth studying. This paper studies how moral manager (senior leader) leadership trickles down to unethical employee behavior through moral supervisor (employee direct supervisor) leadership, and discusses the moderating effect of LMX and ethical climate. Through the questionnaire survey of 406 pairs of leaders and employees, the research results of multilevel path analysis show that: (1) Moral manager leadership is negatively related to unethical employee behavior. (2) Moral supervisor leadership mediates the relationship between moral manager leadership and unethical employee behavior. (3) LMX positively moderates the relationship between moral manager leadership and moral supervisor leadership, and moderates the mediating effect of moral supervisor leadership. (4) Ethical climate positively moderates the relationship between moral supervisor leadership and unethical employee behavior, and moderates the mediating effect of moral supervisor leadership.
关键词：Moral leadership; Unethical employee behavior; Trickle-down effect; LMX; Ethical climate