Dark Tetrad and workplace deviance: Investigating the moderating role of organizational justice perceptions.

ABSTRACT: This study tested the direct effects of Dark Tetrad traits on organizational and interpersonal counterproductive work behaviors (CWBs). We also examined the moderating effects of the three dimensions of organizational justice - distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice - on the Dark Tetrad-CWBs relationships. Based on the data from 613 employees across different occupations, the results revealed that only psychopathy and sadism had significant effects on CWBs targeted at the organization. The results also supported the direct effect of sadism on interpersonal CWBs. The findings confirmed the moderating role of interactional justice but differentially, depending on the dark trait and the target of workplace deviance. Whereas low and medium levels of interactional j

SUBMITTER: Fernandez-Del-Rio E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9631426 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature