| Pro-social rule breaking,rule-breaking to promote the organization,is a paradox regard of morality.Ethical leadership is a moral person and a moral manager.In Chinese organizational context,exploring how ethical leadership influence employees'pro-social rule breaking,and what the mechanism and boundary conditions are,is full of theoretical and practical significance.From the view of supervisor-subordinate relationship,this study aimed to investigate the curvilinear effect of ethical leadership on pro-social rule breaking,examine the parallel multiple mediating effects of LMX and SSG,and examine the moderating effect of regulatory focus in the specific Chinese cultural context.Questionnaires were carried out to collect 303 employees' data in Zhejiang province.The results showed that:(1)The relationship between ethical leadership and pro-social rule breaking is curvilinear.(2)Considering the parallel multiple mediating effects,SSG mediates the effect of ethical leadership on pro-social rule breaking,while LMX does not.And the instantaneous indirect effect of SSG increases with the growth of ethical leadership.(3)Regulatory focus moderates the effect of ethical leadership on pro-social rule breaking.For people with high prevention focus,the inverted U curve is sharper.(4)Regulatory focus moderates the mediating effect of SSG between ethical leadership and pro-social rule breaking.For people with high prevention focus,the mediating effect is more obvious.These conclusions will contribute to the literature and to management practices in three aspects.This study reveals the curvilinear effect of ethical leadership on pro-social rule breaking,highlighting the double-edged sword feature of ethical leadership.This research examines the parallel multiple mediating effects of LMX and SSG,extending the black-box research on curvilinear effect.And the conclusions mentioned above can help managers guide employees' pro-social behavior more rationally and efficiently. |
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