Employee silence is detrimental to organizations, and managers high in narcissism may create conditions that indirectly promote employee silence. Drawing on socio‐analytic theory, in three samples (Ns = 79, 125, and 119), we investigated whether employees’ perceptions of manager trustworthiness mediated the relation between manager trait narcissism and employee silence, and whether this mediation was moderated by a social skill, apparent sincerity. We found that the three samples largely supported our research model. Manager narcissism lowered employees’ perceptions of manager trustworthiness, which were in turn related to increased employee silence. Whereas the effect of narcissism on trustworthiness perceptions and, indirectly, on employee silence were stronger for managers lower in apparent sincerity, these effects of narcissism were absent for managers high in apparent sincerity.

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经理自恋与员工沉默：社会分析理论的视角

员工沉默对组织有害，自恋心强的经理可能会创造条件，间接促进员工沉默。借鉴社会分析理论，三个样本（Ns个 = 79、125和119），我们调查了员工对经理信任度的看法是否介导了经理特质自恋和员工沉默之间的关系，以及这种调解是否通过社交技巧和明显的诚意进行了调解。我们发现这三个样本在很大程度上支持了我们的研究模型。经理自恋降低了员工对经理可信赖度的认识，而后者又与员工保持沉默有关。自恋对表象诚恳度较低的管理者而言，自恋对信任感的影响以及间接地对员工沉默的影响更大，而对表象诚恳度较高的管理者则没有自恋的影响。