关键词: 自大自豪, 亲组织不道德行为, 道德注意, 道德明晰, 三项交互

Abstract: As a complex behavior, unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) has two attributes of pro-organization and un-ethics. The pro-organization means that the intention behind UPB is to benefit the organization and its members, while the un-ethics means that UPB violates norms, or globally held standards of ethical behavior judged in terms of justice, law, or social norms. With these dual attributes, UPB may benefit the organization and its members in the short term, but it will disrupt the reputation and performance of the organization in the long term. Therefore, to inhibit and reduce UPB, researchers focus on exploring its antecedents. However, the previous antecedent studies of UPB have little knowledge about the influence of moral emotion, and also fail to comprehensively consider both two attributes of UPB, resulting in an incomplete understanding of the formation of UPB.
Drawing from the affective infusion model and the moral self-regulation theory, we explore the effect of hubristic pride on UPB and the moderating effects of moral attentiveness and moral clarity. Specifically, we expect that hubristic pride would be positively related to UPB. Moreover, moral attentiveness and moral clarity might weaken the positive relationship between hubristic pride and UPB. We further propose that the interaction effects of hubristic pride, moral attentiveness, and moral clarity on UPB. To test the proposed hypotheses, we conducted a two-wave field study involving 288 employees from a financial company and a railway company in East China. At Time 1, employees assessed their hubristic pride, authentic pride, moral attentiveness, and moral clarity, and provided their demographic information. At Time 2, employees were asked to report their UPB over the past half month. The final matched sample included 205 employees.
The results of regression analyses show that: (1) hubristic pride is positively related to UPB; (2) the moderating effect of moral attentiveness on the relationship between hubristic pride and UPB is not significant; (3) moral clarity mitigates the positive effect of hubristic pride on UPB; (4) the three-way interactions of hubristic pride, moral attentiveness and moral clarity on UPB are significant.
Our research has three theoretical contributions. First, we explore the influence of hubristic pride on UPB, which enriches the research on the antecedents of UPB. Our work makes up for the lack of attention to moral emotions in the current antecedent studies of UPB. In addition, we consider both pro-organization and unethics attributes of UPB, which is helpful to comprehensively grasp the formation of UPB. Second, our research focuses on the impact of hubristic pride, and enriches and refines the research on pride. By focusing on hubristic pride, this paper shifts the focus of researchers from the whole pride to the specific dimension of pride, which is helpful to provide more detailed research evidence for pride and other emotional research. Finally, based on the moral self-regulation theory, this paper discusses the boundary conditions under which hubristic pride influences UPB from the perspective of moral cognition. By identifying the moderating factors of moral attentiveness and moral clarity, this study clarifies under what circumstances hubristic pride can promote UPB and under what circumstances it does not promote such behavior. The introduction of moral cognition further enriches and complements the influence of emotion on moral behavior from the perspective of rationality.

Key words: hubristic pride, unethical pro-organizational behavior, moral attentiveness, moral clarity, three-way interaction