Purpose

This paper aims to examine the workplace team member self-reported social loafing (SL) in relation to the dark triad personality traits of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. The moderating effect of team member exchange (TMX), a social contextual factor, on each proposed dark trait-SL relationship was also examined. A person X situation interactionist perspective was adopted.

Design/methodology/approach

American employees were recruited to complete surveys consisting of previously published, validated and reliable scales. Correlations and hierarchical regressions were used to test the study hypotheses.

Findings

As hypothesized, all positive dark trait-SL relationships were supported. TMX moderated the Machiavellianism-SL and psychopathy-SL relationships, as hypothesized. Unexpectedly, TMX was not found to moderate the narcissism-SL relationship.

Originality/value

Findings imply increased managerial monitoring costs when supervising employees with elevated levels of dark traits. This is especially so when workers are assigned to team tasks and SL is a concern. To alleviate loafing tendencies, the nurturing of high-quality TMX relations among employees with elevated levels of traits Machiavellianism and psychopathy likely moderates the positive Machiavellianism- and psychopathy-SL relations. The emerging SL literature that accounts for both personality and situation, the dark trait-deviant workplace behavior literature stream and research evidencing the ability of TMX to remedy problematic characteristic behaviors are all extended by the present research.

中文翻译：

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黑暗特质、社交闲散和团队成员交流：谁在什么时候偷懒？

目的

本文旨在研究工作场所团队成员自我报告的社会懒惰 (SL) 与马基雅维利主义、自恋和精神病的黑暗黑社会人格特征的关系。还检查了团队成员交换 (TMX)（一种社会背景因素）对每个提议的黑暗特质-SL 关系的调节作用。采用了人 X 情境交互论的观点。

设计/方法/方法

美国员工被招募来完成调查，这些调查包括以前发布的、经过验证的和可靠的量表。相关性和层次回归用于测试研究假设。

发现

正如假设的那样，所有积极的黑暗特质-SL 关系都得到支持。正如假设的那样，TMX 调节了马基雅维利主义-SL 和精神病-SL 的关系。出乎意料的是，没有发现 TMX 可以缓和自恋-SL 关系。

原创性/价值

调查结果表明，在监督具有较高黑暗特征水平的员工时，管理监督成本会增加。当工人被分配到团队任务并且 SL 是一个问题时尤其如此。为了减轻懒惰的倾向，在具有高水平特征的马基雅维利主义和精神病的员工之间培养高质量的 TMX 关系可能会缓和积极的马基雅维利主义和精神病 - SL 关系。兼顾个性和情境的新兴 SL 文献、黑暗特质越轨的工作场所行为文献流以及证明 TMX 纠正有问题的特征行为的能力的研究都被本研究扩展了。