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Not on My Watch: Facilitating peer reporting through employee job attitudes and personality traits
Author(s) -
Bowling Nathan A.,
Lyons Brian D.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of selection and assessment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.812
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1468-2389
pISSN - 0965-075X
DOI - 10.1111/ijsa.12097
Subject(s) - psychology , counterproductive work behavior , big five personality traits , personality , social psychology , sample (material) , applied psychology , organizational commitment , organizational citizenship behavior , chemistry , chromatography
Because employees often conceal their misbehavior from management, counterproductive work behaviors ( CWB s) can be difficult to detect. Fortunately, peer reporting – which occurs when employees report their coworkers' misdeeds to organizational authorities – may enhance the detection of CWB s. Little is known, however, about the variables that facilitate peer reporting. Using a sample of working adults ( N = 267), we examined job attitudes and personality traits as moderators of the relationship between CWB observations and CWB reporting. Our results suggest that most CWB s employees observe go unreported. Furthermore, we found that organizational commitment strengthened the relationship between CWB observations and CWB reporting. The other hypothesized moderators, however, failed to yield the expected interaction effects.