... via psychological entitlement but enhanced them via guilt. Notably, efficiency promotion motive moderated these diametric effects, mitigating the entitlement-mediated deterioration while amplifying the guilt-mediated amelioration. Practical implications Organizations should recognize the moral...

... gratitude) and negative (psychological entitlement) pathways that create a double-edged sword effect. Design/methodology/approach Using a two-wave time-lagged design, we collected data from 356 leader-employee dyads and tested hypotheses through multi-level path analysis and the Monte Carlo method...

... theory, this study examines how recruiters’ attributions about leader–member exchange (LMX) influence their psychological entitlement, which in turn shapes incivility toward job seekers. Design/methodology/approach The survey data was collected in three waves from 320 recruiters involved...

... this negative impact. Design/methodology/approach A three-wave survey with one-month intervals was conducted with 344 participants from different industries. Findings The results suggest that servant leadership triggered psychological entitlement among followers with high Machiavellianism, leading...

...Mary Dana Laird; James J. Zboja; Paul Harvey; Lisa M. Victoravich; Anupama Narayan Purpose Guided by Hobfoll’s (1989) conservation of resources theory, we examined how psychological entitlement moderates the negative relationship between work-family conflict (WFC) and job satisfaction. Design...