College of Business Administration, Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha 410205, China.
School of Business and Tourism Management, Yunnan University, Kunming 650106, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Nov 12;17(22):8371. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17228371.
Previous research on antecedents to constructive deviance remains scattered and inclusive. Our study conceptualizes constructive deviance from the perspective of ethical decision making and explores its antecedents, mechanism, and conditions. Drawing on moral licensing theory and social information processing theory, we propose that group citizenship behavior facilitates moral justification and constructive deviance when environmental dynamism is high and inhibits them when it is low; and moral justification fully mediates the relationship between the interaction of group citizenship behavior and environmental dynamism and constructive deviance. With two-wave panel data collected from 339 employees in 54 groups of five service companies in retailing, finance, and tourism randomly selected from three provinces in southern China, these hypotheses are all supported empirically. Our findings broaden the antecedents and occurrence mechanism of constructive deviance through an ethical decision-making lens. Our study contributes to the moral licensing literature by enriching the sources of moral licensing in the workplace and empirically demonstrating that moral justification may function as an underlying mechanism of moral licensing.
先前关于建设性偏离行为的前因研究仍然较为分散且包容性不足。我们的研究从道德决策的角度来理解建设性偏离行为，并探讨其前因、机制和条件。借鉴道德许可理论和社会信息加工理论，我们提出，当环境动态性高时，群体公民行为会促进道德辩护和建设性偏离，而当环境动态性低时则会抑制道德辩护和建设性偏离；道德辩护完全中介了群体公民行为与环境动态性和建设性偏离之间的相互作用关系。本研究通过来自中国南方三个省份的五个零售、金融和旅游服务公司的 54 个五人小组的 339 名员工的两波面板数据，实证检验了这些假设。我们的研究结果通过道德决策视角拓宽了建设性偏离的前因和发生机制。我们的研究通过丰富工作场所道德许可的来源，并实证证明道德辩护可能是道德许可的潜在机制，为道德许可文献做出了贡献。
