Toxic Leadership and Project Success: Underpinning the Role of Cronyism [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2022 Project success is the backbone of competitiveness and sustainability. The study aims to examine the role of cronyism in the relationship between toxic leadership and project success while taking information technology projects as the study context ...
Farida Saleem +3 more
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Does Organizational Cronyism Lead to Lower Employee Performance? Examining the Mediating Role of Employee Engagement and Moderating Role of Islamic Work Ethics [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 In this research, using a time-lagged approach, we investigated the relationship between organizational cronyism and employee performance. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we tested the mediating role of employee engagement in the ...
Sadia Shaheen +3 more
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The Outcomes of Organizational Cronyism: A Social Exchange Theory Perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The current research examines the possible outcomes of cronyism like organizational deviance (OD), organizational cynicism (OCy), and counterproductive work behavior and also investigates the mediating variable violation of psychological contract (VPC ...
Shahab Ali +5 more
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Organizational cronyism and employee psychological withdrawal behavior: the mediating role of disidentification and moderating effect of employability [PDF]
BMC PsychologyGrounded in the conservation of the resource theory, this study aims to investigate the impact of organizational cronyism on the psychological withdrawal behavior of employees with the mediating role of organizational disidentification and moderating ...
Chunning Xu +2 more
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Re-examine the influence of organizational identification on unethical pro-supervisor behavior [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Employees’ unethical pro-supervisor behavior (UPSB) is common in organizations. Existing research primarily argued that organizational identification increases this behavior, emphasizing that UPSB benefits organizations indirectly.
Tuwei Sun, Wei Shi, Jing Wang
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Organizational Cronyism as an Antecedent of Ingratiation: Mediating Role of Relational Psychological Contract [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The present study investigates the relatively less explored construct organizational cronyism as an antecedent of employees’ ingratiation. Moreover, the role of the relational psychological contract as a mediator between organizational cronyism and ...
Sadia Shaheen +3 more
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Do nepotism and cronyism have payoff boundaries? A cross-country investigation [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2022 In modern business, the phenomena of “nepotism” and “cronyism” are often observed, which are usually associated with corruption in the public sector and abuse of public resources.
Zbysław Dobrowolski +3 more
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Indigenous cultures and employee efficiency: the moderating effect of cronyism in state-owned enterprises in Ghana [PDF]
Public Administration and Policy, 2023 Purpose – This paper examines the relationship between indigenous cultures and employee efficiency and how cronyism strengthens or weakens the relationship in the Ghanaian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in response to the employee efficiency.
Fred Awaah, Morounkeji Olanrewaju
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Risk of Increased Acceptance for Organizational Nepotism and Cronyism during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Risks, 2021 Nepotism and cronyism are forms of favoritism towards certain people in the workplace. For this reason, they constitute a problem for organization managers, ethicists and psychologists.
Grzegorz Ignatowski +2 more
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Journal of Management and Research, 2020 Preferential treatment is detrimental. Keeping in view this important perspective, this study intends to capture the impact of preferential treatment via favoritism, nepotism, and cronyism on employee commitment in Public Universities of Pakistan.
Filza Hameed +2 more
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