<p>Drawing on the group engagement model, we propose that the relationship between perceived supervisor ethical conviction and employees’ ethical voice is serially mediated by self-perceived status and moral ownership, as moderated by perceived supervisor moral hypocrisy. Using time-lagged data collected from 281 employees of 56 teams in China, our results show that self-perceived status and moral ownership serially mediate the negative relationship between perceived supervisor ethical conviction and ethical voice. Furthermore, when employees perceive their supervisors to be morally hypocritical, they react more negatively to their supervisors’ ethical convictions and are more likely to withhold their ethical voice. Implications of these findings for theory and practice are also discussed.</p>

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The Downside of Ethical Convictions: Why and When Employees Reduce Ethical Voice in Response to Perceived Supervisor Ethical Conviction

  • Yilin Xiang,
  • Lu Chen,
  • Xinyu Sun,
  • Xin Feng

摘要

Drawing on the group engagement model, we propose that the relationship between perceived supervisor ethical conviction and employees’ ethical voice is serially mediated by self-perceived status and moral ownership, as moderated by perceived supervisor moral hypocrisy. Using time-lagged data collected from 281 employees of 56 teams in China, our results show that self-perceived status and moral ownership serially mediate the negative relationship between perceived supervisor ethical conviction and ethical voice. Furthermore, when employees perceive their supervisors to be morally hypocritical, they react more negatively to their supervisors’ ethical convictions and are more likely to withhold their ethical voice. Implications of these findings for theory and practice are also discussed.