Employee and coworker idiosyncratic deals : implications for emotional exhaustion and deviant behaviors
Dejun Tony Kong, Violet T. Ho, Sargam Garg
By integrating conservation of resources and social comparison perspectives, we seek to investigate how employees’ own i-deals, independently from and jointly with their coworker’s i-deals, determine their emotional exhaustion and subsequent deviant behaviors. We conducted a field study (131 coworker dyads) focusing on task i-deals, and used Actor–Partner Interdependence Model and polynomial regression to test the hypotheses. We found that emotional exhaustion not only mediated the negative relationship between employees’ own task i-deals and deviant behaviors, but also mediated the positive relationship between upward social comparison of task i-deals (i.e., a coworker’s vs own task i-deals) and deviant behaviors. These results demonstrated the intra- and interpersonal implications of task i-deals for emotional exhaustion and subsequent deviant behaviors. The current research not only shifts the attention from a predominantly positive view on i-deals to a more balanced and nuanced view on i-deals’ implications, but also sheds light on the interpersonal nature of i-deals and the emotional exhaustion implication of upward social comparison.
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2020
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Authors: | Kong, Dejun ; Ho, Violet T. ; Garg, Sargam |
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Journal of business ethics : JBE. - Dordrecht : Springer, ISSN 1573-0697, ZDB-ID 1478688-6. - Vol. 164.2020, 3, p. 593-609
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