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The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2017
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Title
The Relationship between Authoritarian Leadership and Employees’ Deviant Workplace Behaviors: The Mediating Effects of Psychological Contract Violation and Organizational Cynicism
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00732
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Authors

Hongyan Jiang, Yang Chen, Peizhen Sun, Jun Yang

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' deviant workplace behaviors (DWB), as well as the mediating effects of psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 391 manufacturing workers in a northern city of China. Structural equation modeling was performed to test the theory-driven models. The results showed that the relationship between authoritarian leadership and employees' DWB was mediated by organizational cynicism. Moreover, this relationship was also sequentially mediated by psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism. This research unveiled psychological contract violation and organizational cynicism as underlying mechanism that explained the link between authoritarian leadership and employees' DWB.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 200 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 10%
Student > Bachelor 13 7%
Lecturer 10 5%
Other 29 14%
Unknown 63 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 65 33%
Social Sciences 19 10%
Psychology 15 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 3%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 20 10%
Unknown 71 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2024.
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#2,597,860
of 26,196,613 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#5,210
of 35,075 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#45,420
of 329,195 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#146
of 600 outputs
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