Citation

Liu S, Zhu Q, Wei F. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019; 16(21): e16214187.

Affiliation

School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China. fwei@tongji.edu.cn.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, MDPI: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

DOI

10.3390/ijerph16214187

PMID

31671887

Abstract

Drawing on psychological contract theory, this research contributes to the unethical behavior literature by exploring employees' turnover intentions as a mediator of the relationship between abusive supervision and employees' unethical behavior and the moderating role of the caring climate in the relationship between turnover intentions and unethical behavior. The results from a sample of 679 reveal that turnover intentions mediate relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates' unethical behavior, and caring climate moderates the positive relationship between turnover intentions and subordinates' unethical behavior. We also find that the indirect effect is moderated by the caring climate. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Language: en

Keywords

abusive supervision; caring climate; turnover intentions; unethical behavior