... acceptability of norm violation, and also functions as a moderated mediator. Practical implications To effectively manage the trickle-down effect of PSRB, organizations should enhance leaders' self-awareness of their role-modeling impact, proactively set cognitive boundaries for acceptable norm violations...

... that extends its influence to unethical employee behavior. Second, the study traces the source of the benevolent leadership of employees' supervisors and reveals the action mechanism of how benevolent manager leadership affects unethical employee behavior (trickle-down effect). LMX and the ethical climate...

...Gukdo Byun; Soojin Lee; Steven J. Karau; Ye Dai Purpose By taking a social learning perspective, this study examines the trickle-down effect of empowering leadership across hierarchical levels in an organization. Specifically, this study aims to demonstrate that the empowering leadership of higher...