The Influence Of Abusive Supervision On Employees' Cheating Behaviors

The 19th national congress of the communist party of China clearly pointed out that we should advocate the building of integrity,promote the building of professional ethics and personal morality,raise people's moral standards,and promote the moral civilization of the whole society.However,under the new normal of today's competitive economy,enterprises are increasingly pursuing high efficiency and high profits,so that employees are stimulated by various pressures,which can easily induce unethical behaviors of employees,bring potential losses to enterprises and even affect the future development of organizations.Supervisor's behavior on employees' immoral behavior has a direct impact,therefore the analysis on abusive supervision how to affect employee cheating behavior can help to understand the organizational induce on employee unethical behavior,guide employee positive behavior,reduce or even avoid the losses for organization.This study explores the influence of abusive management on cheating behavior through emotional exhaustion of employees from the perspective of protective motivation and clarifies the boundary conditions of moral identity in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and cheating behavior.Based on theoretical and practical analysis,the deficiencies of the existing research are clarified as follows:First,the research perspective of the causes of cheating lacks leadership level research and the mechanism is still unclear;Second,abusive supervision as a destructive leadership style,will affect the negative behavior of employees.However,most outcome variables at the behavioral level are explicit behaviors,such as anti-production behaviors and destructive behaviors,and there is no research on employees' cheating behavior.Third,moral identity reflects that individual differences in moral cognition will lead to the differences in behavior.However,it is unknown that the combination between moral identity with emotional condition how to affect individual differences on behaviors.In order to fill the research gap,this study mainly addresses the following questions:How abusive management induces cheating behaviors through emotional exhaustion;Whether moral identity can play a regulating role in the relationship between emotional exhaustion and cheating behaviors,and whether it can also moderated the indirect effect of abusive supervision on cheating behavior via emotional exhaustion.Using Amos21.0 and SPSS20.0 to make confirmatory factor analysis,correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analysis to verify the assumption of this model,the results show that:Abusive supervision had a significant positive effect on employee cheating behavior.Employee emotional exhaustion played a mediating role in the relationship between abusive supervision and employee cheating behavior.Employee moral identity moderated the relationship between employee motional exhaustion and cheating behavior,such that the effect of emotional exhaustion on cheating behavior is weaker when moral identity is high rather than low.Moreover,employee moral identity moderated the indirect effect of abusive supervision on cheating behavior via emotional exhaustion,such that the indirect effect is weaker when moral identity is high rather than low.