Psychological Contracts as a Mediator between Machiavellianism and Employee Citizenship and Deviant Behaviors

Author(s)

Thomas Zagenczyk, Clemson UniversityFollow
Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, University of New South WalesFollow
Christian Kiewitz, University of DaytonFollow
Kohyar Kiazad, Monash UniversityFollow
Robert L. Tang, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Philippines

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

Comments

Published online July 28, 2011.

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