Title
Psychological Contracts as a Mediator between Machiavellianism and Employee Citizenship and Deviant Behaviors
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-28-2011
Publication Source
Journal of Management
Abstract
Results from four studies in multiple contexts drawing on different data sources provide full support for the proposition that Machiavellian employees prefer forming transactional psychological contracts (schemas of their employee–employer relationship that are economic in nature) and that such contracts mediate the relationship between Machiavellianism and supervisor-rated (a) organizational citizenship behaviors and (b) deviant behaviors, respectively. The authors’ research contributes to scholars’ understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of the relationship between Machiavellianism and contextual performance as well as to the psychological contracts literature by demonstrating that Machiavellianism influences contextual performance because it affects the manner in which employees construe their employment relationships.
ISBN/ISSN
eISSN: 1557-1211;ISSN: 0149-2063
Peer Reviewed
yes
Keywords
Machiavellianism, psychological contracts, organizational citizenship behavior, OCB, deviance, task performance
eCommons Citation
Zagenczyk, Thomas; Restubog, Simon Lloyd D.; Kiewitz, Christian; Kiazad, Kohyar; and Tang, Robert L., "Psychological Contracts as a Mediator between Machiavellianism and Employee Citizenship and Deviant Behaviors" (2011). Management and Marketing Faculty Publications. 3.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/mgt_fac_pub/3
COinS
Comments
Published online July 28, 2011.