Injustice and counterproductive work behavior : testing the moderating role of depletion via a quasi-experimental design
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2018
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The main goal of the present study was to extend previous research by studying the role of depletion in the relation between injustice and counterproductive work behavior (or CWB for short). Here we ask when do employees react more strongly to injustice and, thus, show more CWBs: when they are depleted or when they are not depleted? We proposed that employees’ depletion (i.e. the condition of being tired) would moderate the positive relation between injustice perceptions and CWB, so that high depletion will strengthen this relation. We conducted a 2x2 quasi-experimental design, manipulating justice and depletion to study their impact on CWB. The sample (n = 279) was obtained using Amazon MTurk. The participants were randomly assigned to the 4 conditions. We analyzed moderation and mediation models using PROCESS v3.1 macro for SPSS. The results showed that employees’ depletion did not moderate the relation between injustice perceptions and CWB. However, complementary analyses showed that depletion interacts with justice in predicting negative affect, which in turn is strongly correlated to CWB.
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Tesis (Magíster en Psicología Laboral-Organizacional)--Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2018