复旦大学管理学院企业管理系暨复旦大学企业人力资源研究所联合讲座：2023（4）

时间：2023年4月14日（周五） 9:30-11:00

地点：李达三楼104室

主持人：吴冬媛助理教授

主题：Examining the Effects of Interpersonal Competition on Employees’ Reporting of Unethical Behavior in Organizations

主讲嘉宾：Feng Qiu

Assistant Professor of Organization Studies, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst

嘉宾简介：

Feng Qiu is an Assistant Professor of Organization Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include behavioral ethics, unethical leadership, reporting unethical behavior, emotions, and experiments. His work has been published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Management, and Organizational Research Methods. He is also the father of two uncontrollable kids and caregiver of three cute guinea pigs.

摘要：

Past research has tended to view employees who report unethical behavior as heroes who aim to stem the tide of unethical behavior in organizations. However, we argue that there can be more self-serving motives underlying such behavior. Specifically, drawing on Dual-Strategies Theory, we propose that, when work is highly competitive, two distinct status striving motivations will arise in employees: dominance striving and prestige striving. We further argue that dominance striving will lead to a desire to undermine (the dominance path), and prestige striving will lead to a desire to appear virtuous (the prestige path). The two distinct desires will eventually drive people to report others’ misconducts at work. In addition, we argue that the reporter’s status stability will moderate the effects of competition on status striving motivations, such that the indirect effect of competition on reporting others’ unethical behavior through the dominance path will be stronger when the reporter’s status stability is high (versus low) while the indirect effect through the prestige path will be stronger when the reporter’s status stability is low (versus high). In addition, we argue that the effects of competition on reporting others’ unethical behavior through the dominance path are likely to be strengthened when the reporter is highly Machiavellian. Results from a lab experiment and a multi-wave field study were generally supportive of our arguments. We discuss the theoretical implications of our research as well as practical implications for employees and their organizations.