Abstract
Performance pressure is becoming prevalent among employees. Previous studies have yielded important insights about how performance pressure influences employees. However, they did not take moral mechanisms into account. Our research attempts to extend the understanding of performance pressure from a moral perspective. Specifically, we hypothesize that performance pressure is related to employee expediency via moral decoupling. We further hypothesize dialectical thinking and moral identity as moderators for the mediating role of moral decoupling. The analyses of data collected from 229 employees in three waves support all the hypotheses but one (the moderating role of moral identity). Our research makes several contributions to deeper understandings of performance pressure and unethical behavior, and have implications for management as well.
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