...Qingzhou Sun; Xinyi Yu; Yuwei Liu; Bao Wu Purpose This study aims to examine how wealth status influences social members’ allocation preferences under an effort-contribution imbalance and explore the underlying mechanism from the perspectives of competence and warmth perception. Design...

...Qianlin Zhu; Ken Cheng; Nanqi Zou Purpose Although negative workplace gossip is ubiquitous, we know little about how it influences the sender–receiver relationship. Drawing on attribution theory and the warmth–competence framework, we develop a theoretical model to examine how receivers’ self...

...Hong Hu; Liying Chen; Yuxiang Zheng Purpose This study aimed to explore the effects of the satisfaction of employees' need for autonomy, relatedness and competence on their voice behavior through the mediation of self-efficacy for voice and perceived risk for voice. Design/methodology/approach...

...Daphna Motro; Daniel Sullivan Purpose Using the stereotype content model (SCM) as a framework, the authors examine how the negative relationship between peoples’ unethical behavior and perceptions of their competence only holds when the unethical act is simple. Design/methodology/approach...