ABSTRACT

To investigate how employees’ impression management behavior, targeted upward at organizational leaders, relates to their peer-rated organizational influence, this study considers both a mediating role of peer-rated workplace popularity and a moderating role of self-rated social dominance orientation. Multisource, three-wave data from employees and their peers in the power-distant, collectivistic country of Pakistan reveal that upward impression management behavior, despite raising some potential organizational concerns, is associated with peer-rated workplace popularity for employees, who in turn can wield greater influence over colleagues. The mediating role of peer-rated workplace popularity also is more prominent to the extent that employees accept social hierarchies, because this orientation makes their use of upward impression management tactics to advance their own and their peers’ personal interests more purposeful.

摘要

为了研究针对组织领导者的员工印象管理行为如何与他们的同等评价的组织影响相关，本研究同时考虑了同等评价的工作场所受欢迎程度的中介作用和自我评价的社会主导地位的调节作用。来自远离权力的集体主义国家巴基斯坦的员工及其同僚的多源，三波数据显示，尽管引起了一些潜在的组织担忧，但向上的印象管理行为与员工在工作场所中的同等评价相联系，反过来，他们可以对同事的影响更大。在员工接受社会等级制度的范围内，同级工作场所受欢迎程度的中介作用也更加突出。