Narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCB
ISSN: 0025-1747
Article publication date: 2 December 2020
Issue publication date: 31 August 2021
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to build a link between narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). On the basis of the social dynamics of state paranoia theory, the study examines the relationship between narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCBs, and explores how this relationship is mediated by psychological safety and affective organizational commitment.
Design/methodology/approach
Using data collected from a sample of 183 employee–leader dyads from a technology company in China, the study examines the mediating effects of psychological safety and affective organizational commitment on the relationship between narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCBs. Structural equation modeling is used to analyze the data.
Findings
The results indicate that narcissistic supervision has a negative effect on psychological safety and affective organizational commitment; psychological safety mediates the relationship between narcissistic supervision and affective organizational commitment; and affective organizational commitment mediates the relationship between psychological safety and employees' change-oriented OCBs. The results also show that the negative effect of narcissistic supervision on employees' change-oriented OCBs is mediated by psychological safety and subsequently affective organizational commitment.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature by linking narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCBs and suggesting that psychological safety and affective organizational commitment are two critical mediators of this relationship. This study not only advances research on the “dark side” of narcissistic supervision, but also sheds light on the underlying mechanism of narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCBs from the psychological and emotional perspectives.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Number: 71972181, 71573124).Corrigendum: It has come to the attention of the publisher that “Narcissistic Supervision and Employees’ Change-oriented Organizational Citizenship Behaviors” by Wenting Wang, Lirong Jian, Qiuyun Guo, Haitao Zhang and Wenxing Liu, published in Management Decision omitted the second affiliation of Wenting Wang. The second affiliation of Wenting Wang is as follows: Department of Economic and Management, Taiyuan Institute of Technology, Taiyuan, China. This has been corrected in the article. The authors sincerely apologize for this oversight.
Citation
Wang, W., Jian, L., Guo, Q., Zhang, H. and Liu, W. (2021), "Narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCB", Management Decision, Vol. 59 No. 9, pp. 2164-2182. https://doi.org/10.1108/MD-01-2020-0048
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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