How Employee-Organization Relationship Influences Employee's Unethical Pro-Organizational Behavior

Unethical pro-organization behavior(UPB)is getting more and more attention from scholars since Umphress proposed this concept in 2010.This paper aims to explore the influencing factors of UPB.First of all,according to the previous investigation and examples,UPB could produce severe harm to companies and society,in this way to confirm the value of studying the causes and influences of UPB.Then,based on the previous literature review,social exchange theory and social identity theory——We emphasize social exchange theory in particular because China is a relationship-based society,employees' balanced reciprocal beliefs may have different influencing mechanism compared with ones in Western countries——this paper proposes that the interaction between incentive and contribution in Employee-Organization Relationship(EOR)will positively promote the staff to engage in UPB,and employees' organization identity and balanced reciprocity beliefs play an intermediary role in this relationship.The data was collected in a cross-sectional survey from 140 companies and more than 1,000 employees in China,including Beijing,Nanjing,Hefei,Guangdong and other cities.The results of data analysis show that:1)the incentives that organization provide for employees promote them to engaged in UPB,and the organization's contribution to the staff to adjust the relationship between the expectations;2)the incentives that organization provide for employees promote them to have stronger balanced reciprocity beliefs,while organization's expected contribution from employees positively moderate this relationship.3)Employees'balanced reciprocity beliefs play a mediating role in the relationship between EOR and UPB.Finally,this paper summarizes the theoretical and practical significance of the research(such as broadening the study of anterior variables of UPB,confirmed the possible side effects of balanced reciprocity etc),as well as potential limitations,and also put forward possible directions for future research.