The Influencing Mechanism Of Colleague Unethical Pro-supervisor Behavior On Employee Silence

People are essential to the development of an organization and negative employee behavior remains a key concern for organizations,such as employee silence and workplace rejection.Influenced by the deep-rooted Confucian culture of "respect and inferiority",employee silence is more likely to occur in Chinese organizations,resulting in employees not being able to express themselves safely and freely for a long period of time,and a reduced sense of belonging to the organization,resulting in various negative behaviors such as leaving and reduced motivation.In existing domestic and international research,the causes of employee silence are focused on four areas: personal,leadership,organizational and socio-cultural,and there is a lack of research on the antecedents of employee silence from a bystander’s perspective.In the workplace,each member of the team does not exist independently,but interacts with each other,and some things that happen to colleagues can indirectly affect employees’ silent behavior.Therefore,in order to reduce the occurrence of such phenomena,this paper uses pro-superior non-ethical behavior of colleagues as a negative variable affecting employee silence and psychological security as a mediating variable.The impact of this behavior on silent behavior in organizations is explored in relation to the actual situation in China.Firstly,the theoretical model of this study was constructed through a rigorous logical reasoning by combing and summarizing the empirical studies of relevant variables and resource conservation theory literature at home and abroad.The data collection was carried out by means of questionnaires with employees of different nature units as the research subjects,and a total of over 600 questionnaires were collected.395 valid sample data were finally obtained by excluding invalid questionnaires that were not filled in seriously.Secondly,reliability analysis,descriptive statistical analysis and hypothesis testing were carried out with the help of data analysis software.The results of the study showed that:(1)colleagues’ pro-leadership non-ethical behavior positively influenced employees’ silent behavior,i.e.the higher the level of colleagues’ pro-leadership non-ethical behavior,the lower the individual’s psychological security;(2)psychological security played a partially mediating role between colleagues’ pro-leadership non-ethical behavior and employees’ silence,i.e.colleagues’ pro-leadership non-ethical behaviour would influence employees’ psychological security and thus lead them to make the silent(3)authoritative leadership significantly and negatively moderates the relationship between pro-leadership unethical behavior and psychological security,in that the lower the level of authoritative leadership,the stronger the effect of pro-leadership unethical behavior on employees’ silence through psychological security,and the weaker the opposite.Finally,based on the findings of this paper,the theoretical and practical implications are discussed,and corresponding management responses are proposed accordingly for the three subjects: managers,organizations and individuals.