Positive Group Context,Work Attitudes,and Organizational Misbehavior: The Case of Withholding Job Effort |
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Authors: | Roland E Kidwell Sean R Valentine |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Management and Marketing, University of Wyoming, P.O. Box 3275, Laramie, WY, 82071, U.S.A.;(2) Department of Management, University of North Dakota, 293 Centennial Drive, Mailstop 8377, Grand Forks, ND, 58202-8377, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Considering the organization’s ethical context as a framework to investigate workplace phenomena, this field study of military
reserve personnel examines the relationships among perceptions of psychosocial group variables, such as cohesiveness, helping
behavior and peer leadership, employee job attitudes, and the likelihood of individuals’ withholding on-the-job effort, a
form of organizational misbehavior. Hypotheses were tested with a sample of 290 individuals using structural equation modeling,
and support for negative relationships between perceptions of positive group context and withholding effort by individual
employees was found. In addition, individual effort-performance expectancy and individual job satisfaction were negatively
related to withholding effort. The findings provide evidence that individual perceptions of positive group context play a
key role in the presence of misbehavior at work. The results indicate that positive group context might be an important element
of ethical climate that should be managed to temper occurrence of such adverse work behavior.
Roland E. Kidwell (PhD, Louisiana State University) is an associate professor in the Management and Marketing Department in
the College of Business at the University of Wyoming. His major research and teaching interests focus on new ventures and
economic development, family business, social entrepreneurship, business ethics, and workplace deviance. His research has
been published in academic journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, International Entrepreneurship and Management
Journal, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy and Journal of Business Ethics. He is co-editor of the book, Managing Organizational Deviance (Sage, 2005).
Sean R. Valentine (DBA, Louisiana Tech University) is Professor of Management in the Department of Management, College of
Business and Public Administration at the University of North Dakota. His research and teaching interests include business
ethics, human resource management, and organizational culture. His work has appeared in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, Journal of Business Research, Behavioral Research in Accounting
and Journal of Business Ethics. |
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Keywords: | workplace deviance social influence withholding effort attitudes group context anti-social behavior |
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