The Dark Side of Status at Work: Perceived Status Importance, Envy, and Interpersonal Deviance

IF 3.4 2区 哲学 Q2 BUSINESS Business Ethics Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI:10.1017/beq.2022.2
Niki A. den Nieuwenboer, Jennifer J. Kish-Gephart, L. Treviño, A. Peng, Iris Reychav
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Organizations differ in the extent to which they emphasize the importance of status, yet most extant research on the role of status at work has utilized a limited view of status as merely a matter of a person’s status rank. In contrast, we examine people’s perceptions of the extent to which having status matters in their work context and explore the behavioral implications of such perceptions. We offer a new construct, perceived status importance, defined as employees’ subjective assessment of the degree to which people within their organization are preoccupied with status. Relying on social comparison theory, we propose that higher perceived status importance triggers envy, which leads to interpersonal deviance. Across three studies, using multiwave survey and experimental designs, we find support for these relationships. We also find support for the mitigating influence of core self-evaluations on the perceived status importance—envy relationship. Implications are discussed.
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工作中地位的阴暗面:感知地位重要性、嫉妒和人际越轨
不同的组织在强调地位重要性的程度上有所不同,然而大多数现存的关于地位在工作中的作用的研究都把地位仅仅看作是一个人的地位等级的问题。相比之下,我们研究了人们对在工作环境中拥有地位的程度的看法,并探讨了这种看法对行为的影响。我们提出了一个新的概念,感知地位重要性,定义为员工对组织内其他人对地位的重视程度的主观评估。基于社会比较理论,我们提出较高的地位重要性感知触发嫉妒,从而导致人际越轨行为。通过三项研究,使用多波调查和实验设计,我们发现了这些关系的支持。我们也发现核心自我评价对感知地位重要-嫉妒关系的缓和影响。讨论了影响。
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期刊介绍: Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to the ethics of business. Since 1991 this multidisciplinary journal has published articles and reviews on a broad range of topics, including the internal ethics of business organizations, the role of business organizations in larger social, political and cultural frameworks, and the ethical quality of market-based societies and market-based relationships. It recognizes that contributions to the better understanding of business ethics can come from any quarter and therefore publishes scholarship rooted in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields.
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