The Effect of Supervisor Incivility on Belongingness, Self-esteem Need Threats and Self-Presentational Behaviors of Employees: The Moderating Role of Individual Honor Orientation

Dr. K. Duygu Erdaş

Abstract

The majority of research on workplace incivility has been conducted in the North American context, which is described as a dignity culture. In dignity cultures, individuals believe that they have an inherent worth that is determined by their adherence to their own standards of morality, decency and the like and therefore, cannot be decreased by others’ opinions of or behaviors towards them. However, one may expect that the effect of workplace incivility will be different in honor cultures, where an individual’s worth is highly contingent on others’ approval and evaluation. This daily diary study investigated the effect of supervisor incivility on basic needs (i.e. belongingness, control and self-esteem) and self-presentational behaviors of employees within an honor culture. The data was collected from 132 employees over a period of two-weeks and analyzed through multilevel modelling. The results indicated that daily supervisor incivility threatened daily belongingness and self-esteem needs of employees. Moreover, these negative effects became more pronounced for individuals with high honor orientation. Needs threats, in turn, differentially mediated the effects of workplace incivility on self-presentational behaviors. Honor orientation acted as a first-stage moderator, increased the strength of these indirect effects.

Biography

Dr. Erdaş received her Ph.D. in Management and Organization Studies from Sabancı University in 2016. She holds an M.A degree in Management, Organization and Organizational Behavior from Hacettepe University (2010) and a B.Sc. degree in Tourism and Hotel Management from Bilkent University (2005). Her research interests include cross-cultural organizational behavior, workplace incivility, organizational citizenship behaviors and honor culture.

Venue

Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 14.00, Sümerbank Building Dean Meeting Room