Khan Salim, Quan Chen, Abbas Syed Mudasser, Jian-Ya Zhou, Gul Habib
School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Jinkou District, Zhenjiang, 212013, Jiangsu Province, China.
Institute of Business Studies, Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, 26000, Pakistan.
BMC Psychol. 2025 Aug 13;13(1):915. doi: 10.1186/s40359-025-03265-z.
This study postulates a theoretical framework based on social determination theory, suggesting that employees' likelihood of workplace deviance can be reduced by their satisfaction with needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Thus, we propose that job autonomy, occupational self-efficacy, and leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships are negatively related to workplace deviance. Additionally, perceived career growth is proposed to mediate these relationships.
The data were collected from 305 employees working in high-tech firms in Jiangsu province, China, through self-reported questionnaires during the two distinct periods. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data.
The results supported the proposed hypotheses. Job autonomy, occupational self-efficacy, and LMX had a negative effect on workplace deviance. Moreover, job autonomy, occupational self-efficacy, and LMX positively affected perceived career growth. Finally, perceived career growth negatively mediated the effect of job autonomy, LMX, and occupational self-efficacy on workplace deviance.
The study concludes that perceived career growth is a significant mediator between job autonomy, occupational self-efficacy, LMX, and workplace deviance. This finding offers key implications for both theory and practice.
本研究基于社会决定理论提出了一个理论框架，表明员工对自主性、能力和关联性需求的满意度可以降低其在工作场所出现违规行为的可能性。因此，我们提出工作自主性、职业自我效能感和领导成员交换（LMX）关系与工作场所违规行为呈负相关。此外，感知到的职业成长被认为在这些关系中起中介作用。
通过在两个不同时期进行的自填式问卷调查，收集了来自中国江苏省高科技公司的305名员工的数据。采用结构方程模型（SEM）对数据进行分析。
结果支持了所提出的假设。工作自主性、职业自我效能感和LMX对工作场所违规行为有负面影响。此外，工作自主性、职业自我效能感和LMX对感知到的职业成长有积极影响。最后，感知到的职业成长对工作自主性、LMX和职业自我效能感对工作场所违规行为的影响起到了负向中介作用。
该研究得出结论，感知到的职业成长是工作自主性、职业自我效能感、LMX和工作场所违规行为之间的重要中介变量。这一发现对理论和实践都具有关键意义。
