Supervisor Bottom-Line Mentality, Performance Pressure, and Workplace Cheating: Moderating Role of Negative Reciprocity

Employee cheating at the workplace has reached epidemic proportions and is putting a significant dent on the revenues of corporations. This study evaluates workplace cheating behavior as a consequence of supervisor bottom-line mentality with performance pressure as the mediating mechanism. Most impo...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 13; p. 801283
Main Authors Kamran, Komal, Azam, Akbar, Atif, Mian Muhammad
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 30.05.2022
Subjects
displaced aggression
negative reciprocity belief
performance pressure
Psychology
supervisor bottom-line mentality
workplace cheating
displaced aggression
workplace cheating
supervisor bottom-line mentality
performance pressure
negative reciprocity belief
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Summary:Employee cheating at the workplace has reached epidemic proportions and is putting a significant dent on the revenues of corporations. This study evaluates workplace cheating behavior as a consequence of supervisor bottom-line mentality with performance pressure as the mediating mechanism. Most importantly, it scrutinizes the moderating function of negative reciprocity belief in the relation between bottom-line mentality, performance pressure, and cheating in a moderated-mediation model, through the lens of displaced aggression theory. We systematically conduct time-lagged studies in two different populations (Pakistan and United States). Data analysis reveals that (1) bottom-line mentality positively influences workplace cheating behavior through performance pressure and (2) negative reciprocity moderated this indirect relationship. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
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This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Reviewed by: Susmita Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India; Imran Shafique, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan; Sharjeel Saleem, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
Edited by: Fakhar Shahzad, Jiangsu University, China
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.801283