Workplace Incivility and Deviant Silence: The Role of Moral Attentiveness

Murtaza, Ghulam; Khan, Rahman; Pierre Neveu, Jean

Abstract

In the present study, we examine the reciprocal relationship between employees’ perceptions of workplace incivility and their deviant silence. We also explore the moderating role of moral attentiveness on this relationship. Utilizing three-wave longitudinal data from 297 full-time employees working in different industrial sectors in the United States, we find support for the reciprocal model as the best fit to the data, thus validating relationships over time between our study variables. Taken together, our results suggest that workplace incivility at T1/T2 significantly predicted deviant silence at T2/T3. The results also reveal that deviant silence at T1/T2 significantly predicted workplace incivility at T2/T3. Importantly, we found that reflective but not perceptual moral attentiveness significantly reduced the negative influence of workplace incivility on deviant silence in subsequent time periods. Keywords: workplace incivility, deviant silence, moral attentiveness, reciprocal model"

Citation

Murtaza, G., Khan, R., & Pierre Neveu, J. (2020, August). Workplace Incivility and Deviant Silence: The Role of Moral Attentiveness. Presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Online

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Academy of Management Annual Meeting
• Start Date: Aug 7, 2020
• End Date: Aug 11, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jul 29, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Jan 23, 2025
• Journal: Academy of Management Proceedings
• Print ISSN: 0065-0668
• Electronic ISSN: 2151-6561
• Publisher: Academy of Management
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2020
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2020.19290abstract