Workplace ostracism and employees’counterproductive work behavior：Effects of state self-control and psychological capital

Abstract

Abstract: This study tries to investigate the effect of workplace ostracism (WOS) on counterproductive work behavior (CWB) and mediating role and moderating effect of state self-control (SSC) and psychological capital (PsyCap) in the above relationship based on the theory of self-control resources in the context of Chinese culture. In order to avoid the problem of common method biases, we examined the hypotheses proposed with 356 pairs of supervisor-subordinate data collected from 26 enterprises in central China. Structural equation model (SEM) was adopted to test the distinctiveness of the study variables and hypotheses. The results of SEM reveal that WOS is positively related with both employee's organizational CWB and interpersonal CWB. In addition, the results also show that SSC mediates the relationship between WOS and CWB. Finally, we find that PsyCap positively moderates the relationship between WOS and SSC, such that WOS has a greater negative influence on SSC when employee's PsyCap values are high rather than low. The findings provide theoretical basis and solution for Chinese organizations to prevent and control employee CWB caused by WOS.

Key words: workplace ostracism, state self-control, psychological capital, counterproductive work behavior

CLC Number:

F279.23

Yan Yanling, Zhou Erhua, Liu Ting. Workplace ostracism and employees’counterproductive work behavior：Effects of state self-control and psychological capital[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(3): 82-90.

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