Moving Beyond Initiative: The Reconceptualization and Measurement of Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Despite the fact that unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) has become a theoretical topic in the academic field and the fruitful achievements have been explored in the past decade, organizational researches have largely assumed that UPB is an active and voluntary behavior from the perspective of organizational identity and social exchange. In this paper, the authors argue that previous researches have traditionally considered only a very narrow subset of UPB, focusing almost exclusively on extreme voluntary cases which are not reflective of typical UPB. Instead of being primarily voluntary, some typical UPB can be compulsory in nature. We suggest a different look at UPB by contrasting to the so-called "voluntary" activities via compulsory mechanisms in the workplace. Mostly, we are

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8511457 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature