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Social undermining and organisational attitudes: the moderating role of personality traits

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  • Vahid Yousefian Arani
  • Marjan Fayyazi

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Social undermining is an interpersonal insidious misbehaviour and is significantly associated with employee's outcomes if it repeats over time. The purpose of this article is to investigate the impact of social undermining (SU) on employee's attitudes including organisational commitment (OC), job satisfaction (JS) and job involvement (JI). Moreover, we study the moderating role of personality traits including conscientiousness and neuroticism, on the impact of SU on job attitudes. Regression analysis was used to analyse the data collected from 158 questionnaires completed by employees in an Iranian public institution. Results show that SU by co-workers and supervisors has a considerable effect on employee's job attitudes. The main contribution of the paper is that we found conscientiousness has a moderating role on the effect of SU on OC, affective commitment, normative commitment and JI, and neuroticism has a moderating role on the effect of SU on normative commitment and JS.

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  • Vahid Yousefian Arani & Marjan Fayyazi, 2022. "Social undermining and organisational attitudes: the moderating role of personality traits," International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 16(3), pages 355-375.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbget:v:16:y:2022:i:3:p:355-375
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