Abstract
Research has consistently demonstrated that illegitimate tasks produce a wide array of negative outcomes for employees. However, knowledge about whether such tasks could stimulate employees’ unethical behavior and the conditions under which employees might withhold their unethical behavior is relatively limited. The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the effects of employee experienced illegitimate tasks on unethical behavior based on social cognitive theory and social information processing theory. We conducted a two-wave, two-source survey with a sample of 247 Chinese employees working in the transportation industry. As expected, employee experienced illegitimate tasks are positively related to moral disengagement, and resulting in unethical behavior. In addition, ethical human resource management (HRM) buffers the relationships between moral disengagement and unethical behavior. This study broadens the focus of the research on illegitimate tasks and presents a more complex model in the literature of how ethical HRM influences employees’ moral thought and action.
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