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9. Why Leader Leniency Benefits or Costs Employees? An Examination Based on the Cognitive Perspective.

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Liu, Xin, Lv, Bo, Li, Liyuan, Zheng, Xiaoming, and Zheng, Jiawei

Abstract

As the core element of the organization, leaders are often faced with a dilemma as to how to respond to employee misconduct. Previous research has primarily focused on leader punishment as a vital mean in dealing with employee misconduct. However, leader leniency, as an alternative response to misconduct commonly adopted in practice, has been largely overlooked. To complement this aspect and clarify whether leader leniency is effective, we draw on the cognitive perspective to investigate the potential two-sided influence of leader leniency on employee task performance. Specifically, we propose that leader leniency inhibits employee task performance through the mediating role of psychological entitlement, while it also benefits benefits employee task performance through the mediating role of servant leadership perception. Moreover, trait moral disengagement serves as a vital boundary condition, which amplifies the negative influence of leader leniency through psychological entitlement and simultaneously mitigates the positive effect through servant leadership perception. The results of 463 daily data using experience-sampling approach collected from 86 individuals supported the hypotheses. Our work highlights the mixed blessing of leader leniency and clarifies when and how leader leniency rehabilitates wrongdoers or instead propels them to lower performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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