CHEATING TO BE PERFECT! THE ROLES OF FEAR OF PERFORMANCE FAILURE AND SUPERVISOR BOTTOM-LINE MENTALITY

Li Guo; Jih Yu Mao; Xinyan Mu; Yamei Cai

doi:10.5465/AMPROC.2023.96bp

CHEATING TO BE PERFECT! THE ROLES OF FEAR OF PERFORMANCE FAILURE AND SUPERVISOR BOTTOM-LINE MENTALITY

Li Guo, Jih Yu Mao, Xinyan Mu, Yamei Cai

Department of International Business and Management

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Abstract

Although nascent research has examined the consequences of the perfectionistic personality in organizations, understanding of whether pursuit of perfection may give rise to employee compromised ethical decisions remains limited. This paper seeks to untangle if, when, and why employee perfectionism leads to cheating at work. Based on multiple studies, we find employees high on perfectionistic concerns (versus perfectionistic strivings) to experience more fear of performance failure, which in turn, results in workplace cheating. In addition, we discover supervisor bottom-line mentality as an important moderator. Supervisor bottom-line mentality exacerbates concern perfectionists’ fear of performance failure, leading to more cheating.

Original language	English
Journal	Academy of Management Proceedings
Volume	2023
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5465/AMPROC.2023.96bp
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2023 - Boston, United States Duration: 4 Aug 2023 → 8 Aug 2023

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Management of Technology and Innovation
Industrial relations

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CHEATING TO BE PERFECT! THE ROLES OF FEAR OF PERFORMANCE FAILURE AND SUPERVISOR BOTTOM-LINE MENTALITY

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