Leader negative mood and employee-instigated incivility : the role of mood contagion
Purpose: Given the harmful effects of workplace incivility and the calls for revealing the antecedents of instigated incivility, this study examines how employee-instigated incivility unfolds as a result of negative mood contagion from leaders to employees. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing upon affective events theory, the authors hypothesized that leader negative mood is contagious and has an indirect relationship with employee-instigated incivility through employee negative mood. For hypothesis testing, data were collected from 243 leader-employee dyads and tested using bootstrapped mediation analysis. Findings: As hypothesized, leader negative mood was associated with employee-instigated incivility indirectly through employee negative mood. This finding supports that negative mood of the leader is contagious and might unintendedly trigger employee-instigated incivility toward other at work. Research limitations/implications: Given the cross-sectional design of this study, causal inferences could not be drawn. The direction of relationships between the variables is based on the theoretical assumptions, rather than a test of the causal ordering of the variables. Originality/value: This study advances the limited literature on the antecedents of employee-instigated incivility by demonstrating the impact of negative mood experienced by leaders on uncivil behaviors of employees.
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2021
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Authors: | Emirza, Sevgi ; Öztürk, Engin Bağış |
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Evidence-based HRM: a Global Forum for Empirical Scholarship. - Emerald, ISSN 2049-3983, ZDB-ID 2694217-3. - Vol. 10.2021, 1 (13.09.), p. 88-102
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Emerald |
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