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

为了调查员工的印象管理行为（以组织领导为目标）与他们的同级组织影响力之间的关系，本研究考虑了同级工作场所受欢迎程度的中介作用和自我评价的社会支配取向的调节作用。来自权力遥远的集体主义国家巴基斯坦的员工及其同龄人的多源三波数据显示，尽管引起了一些潜在的组织担忧，但向上印象管理行为与员工在同级工作场所受欢迎程度相关，而后者反过来可以对同事的影响更大。在员工接受社会等级制度的程度上，同级工作场所受欢迎程度的中介作用也更加突出，