Shedding light on the adverse spillover effects of work-family conflict on unethical sales behaviors at work: a daily diary study

Despite the antecedents of unethical sales behavior (USB) have been well studied, these literatures primarily focus on the work domain and neglect the spillover effects of the home domain. Drawing on ego depletion theory as an overarching theoretical framework, this research investigates why and how...

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Auteur principal: Lei, Shaohui (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Springer 2024
Dans: Journal of business ethics
Année: 2024, Volume: 190, Numéro: 2, Pages: 399-411
Sujets non-standardisés:B Work-family conflict
B Daily diary study
B Unethical sales behavior
B Ego depletion
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Service climate
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Résumé:Despite the antecedents of unethical sales behavior (USB) have been well studied, these literatures primarily focus on the work domain and neglect the spillover effects of the home domain. Drawing on ego depletion theory as an overarching theoretical framework, this research investigates why and how salespersons’ work-family conflict (WFC) at home triggers next day's USB at work. This study used daily diary data collected from 99 salespeople in two weeks to test the proposed hypotheses. The multilevel path analysis indicates that evening’s WFC positively affects next afternoon’s USB via increased next morning's ego depletion (ED). Furthermore, service climate was found to moderate this indirect relationship, such that the indirect relationship becomes weaker under high service climate. To the best of my knowledge, this study is one of the first to reveal that salespersons' daily WFC may serve as a role conflict event and lead to next day's USB at work, which provides a fine-grained understanding of spillover effects of daily WFC through a daily diary study.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-023-05423-y